Striving for Better Quotes

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

Everything isn't perfect.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

I’m trying to do better than good enough.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

The philosophy at Valve and Gearbox is that if things can't be done better, they shouldn't be done at all.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.