Pursuing Greatness Quotes

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Never settle for second when first is available

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

I want to be great, something special.

I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?

You know, when you've been to the top, you get comfortable, and you know what it feels like to be a champion, to have nice things and all that. You know, it's just not as appealing as it was coming up.

Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our destiny.

Average is Your Enemy.