Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

I'm always inspired by people who raise the bar, whether in their field of work, parenthood, or giving back.

Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.

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

I teach people how to become limitless.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

You can do more, you can always do more.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.