Personal Best Quotes:

It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

- Tom Daley

topic: Mean, Champion, Personal Best

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

topic: Change, Positive, Inspiring, Mans Search For Meaning, Times Have Changed

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Frugality, Life Philosophy

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

- Jim Ryun

topic: Motivational, Motivation, Habit, Daily Habits, Healthy Habits

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Money Motivation, Personal Best

There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

- Jenny Meadows

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Race, Goal, Feelings, Personal Best, Personal Goal

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.

- Grete Waitz

topic: Inspirational, Mean, Race, Personal Best

The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

- Deena Kastor

topic: Running, Athlete, Simplicity, Mileage, Snowball

Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

- Robin Williams

topic: Thinking, Envelopes, Limits, Personal Best

I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

- Oscar Pistorius

source: "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

topic: Team, Race, Games, Personal Best

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

- Stacy London

topic: Style, Taste, Arguing, Personal Best

I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.

- Adina Porter

topic: Trying, Curious, Beats, Personal Best

While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

- Cecil O. Samuelson

topic: Responsibility, Destiny, Blessing, Individual Responsibility, Individual Success

My top three personal best-dressed list: Lea Michele. I think she really knows how to dress. Blake Lively is great. And Rihanna. I really respect how bold and out-there she is.

- Janel Parrish

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Dresses, Three, Personal Best, Best Dressed

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

- Bonnie Blair

topic: Satisfied, Personal Best

I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

- Camille Duvall

source: Camille Duvall, Nancy Crowell (1992). “Camille Duvall's Instructional Guide to Water Skiing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sports, Running, Morning, Personal Best, Visualization

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

- Sarah Rees Brennan

source: Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

topic: Guy, Useless, Want, Personal Best, Right Guy

Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.

- Jason Epstein

topic: Book, Jealous, Careers, Small Groups, Personal Best

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

- Asafa Powell

topic: Giving, Lines, Want, Personal Best

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

- Jade Edmistone

topic: Sports, Fun, Swimming, Personal Best

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

- Dan O'Brien

topic: Shapes, Limits, Pushing, Personal Best

Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

- David Coleman

topic: World Records, Personal Best, Bloopers

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Girl, Simple, Games, Kate, Personal Best