Quotes About Success

Playing at the top level in the Premier League - that's where I strive to be.

We can't control everything in our lives. Sometimes you're No. 2, 3, 4 or 5. That doesn't matter. What matters is that you strive to be No. 1.

There's the saying that perfect is the enemy of great, because if you strive for perfection you'll maybe never ship. There's a point that's good enough. But I do think that there's so much competition out there that if you don't hit the quality bar, the product will just fail.

You can always go to uni later on in life. There's no set way. If you are at uni, work hard. Strive for your best.

When an actor thinks he has arrived and become the best one, that's when your downfall starts. I will always strive to do better than in my last film.

When you get a little knockback in your career, it gives you something to strive for.

The biggest thing my parents gave me was this feeling of, not 'dream big,' but strive big.

My goal is to really be a dominant player in this league and have nobody question that. That's what I strive for.

My career goal is to be a Hall of Famer. That's what I strive to be. I want to be the very best to do it. To win Super Bowls is a part of that, but the end goal is to be a Hall of Famer.

I strive for being great.

In a normal job, if there was a chance for you to get promoted, are you going to go, 'No, no, no - I want to stay in the exact same spot I'm in now.' Or, are you going to strive and move forward and be better?

If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?

The Spurs, obviously - you look at an organization like that and say that's what you want to be consistent, because they've become consistent. That's what you start striving for night in and night out.

Obviously I'm not to where Michael Jordan is, but trying to get to some level where he was and just striving for the best. That's what got me here.

In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

I'm striving to be the best ever.

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.