Richard Wilbur Quotes

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

I always like surprising people and doing things at a young age and, I don't know, trying to do them at a higher caliber than what you'd normally think. I'm not saying I'm a virtuoso, but I always challenge myself.

I don't know if I'll ever be as good as I was when I started Kogi, but I strive for that.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

I want to be great, something special.

I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.

Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

There's always an opportunity to be your best until I hang up my shoes.

That's the state of mind I have - I always want to be better.

I know a lot of people respect my father. They listen to what he said. It makes me want to strive more and more to be the best I can.

I'm going to show everyone my real potential and I know I have the potential to be the best in the world.