Pushing Ourselves Quotes:

We only get better by pushing ourselves.

- Tom Aikens

topic: Get Better, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

- Neil Gaiman

source: "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

topic: New Year, Mistake, Years, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Trying Something New

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”

topic: Positive, Strength, Success, Pushing Ourselves, Two Ways

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

- PattiSue Plumer

topic: Running, Challenges, Racing, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

- Andrew Bernstein

topic: Stress, Needs, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

topic: Success, Husband, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

- Rosie Perez

topic: Thinking, Glasses, Pushing Forward, Pushing Ourselves, Positive Person

With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

- Tom Cruise

topic: Character, Careers, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

- Patrick Stump

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: Fall, Boys, Trying, Pushing Ourselves, Different Directions

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

- Ronald Rolheiser

topic: Love, Pushing, Entry, Pushing Ourselves

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: World, Pushing, Celebration, Pushing Ourselves, Allowing

To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling

- Darren Shan

topic: Fall, Men, Forever, Pushing Ourselves, Druids

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

- Joshua Waitzkin

topic: Education, Lying, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves