Best Quotes

“I have no doubts that the best is ahead.”
― Trevor Moawad, It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life

“You’re going to experience adversity; you’re going to have days that are incredibly challenging, even scary. There are going to be days that cause you to question your motives and ability. It’s important to realize that the toughest days are your best days, because they have the potential to force the most adaptation—mentally, as well as physically.”
― Ben Bergeron, Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes

“Whatever regrets may be, we have done our best.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure By Alex Hutchinson & The Rise of Superman By Steven Kotler 2 Books Collection Set

“Success to me is giving full effort knowing that was the best I was capable of. That said, full effort means nothing if day-to-day preparation was not all I had. Success to me is giving everything I have into each and every day, each and every moment; training, recovery, family, friends, giving back, inspiring, loving what I do. Then, come game time, give full effort, knowing I am the best I am capable of becoming.”
― Ben Bergeron, Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes

“That’s because at the Flow Genome Project10 we study the relationship between altered states and peak performance, focused primarily on the experience known as flow. Defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” flow refers to those “in the zone” moments where focus gets so intense that everything else disappears. Action and awareness start to merge. Our sense of self vanishes.
Our sense of time as well. And all aspects of performance, both mental and physical, go through the roof.”
― Steven Kotler, Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

“I think it’s important that you do your own research, take personal responsibility for your decisions, experiment, and find what works best for you.”
― Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall

“Great leaders are those who plan and do their best in the implementation of the plans at hand.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“There are literally a hundred ways to do everything. No one talks about that—it's always about finding the one best way—but there are hundreds of ways to do shit.”
― Julie Cross and Mark Perini

“Any excuse that grants me permission to somehow compromise what I am capable of achieving is the ‘worst of me’ undermining the ‘best of me’ in a manner that will never be capable of ‘excusing me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Give chance, your best shot”
― Garry James

“Self-awareness plays a key role in stopping fear and laziness from standing in the way of accepting a reality that must be accepted in order to make the best of a bad situation.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life

“People who are trying to be the best get used to tough evaluations. They get used to high standards. Sometimes the evaluations come from coaches like Cal. More often they come from within. But it’s important that the evaluations come at the right time and are directed at the right stuff.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“We’ve since learned to the contrary that stress can help people grow, just as stressing a muscle by lifting weights helps it get stronger. I think exceptional people have always intuitively understood this. They’ve understood that they need tough competition to become the best players they can be.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“The best for you the most suits you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Mentally tough athletes possess an inner strength. They often play their best when they’re feeling their worst. They don’t make excuses.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“Success in life is peace of mind, the feeling of having no regrets. It comes from knowing you did your best.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“My parents did the best they could, all things considered.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Avoid overthinking and instead concentrate on the critical steps you need to take to perform at your best.”
― Noel Brick, Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything

“How am I impacting myself? How am I impacting others? How am I being my best self every time I step on the field? What’s the story we want to tell? How are we going to write that story?”
― Trevor Moawad

“These were all decisions made in pursuit of a dream. A dream of reaching for excellence and toward becoming the best I could be as a person and in an activity I loved. At those moments of decision time, I felt strong, confident, powerful, faithful.”
― Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, Above All Else

“As the Chimp has based its confidence on giving a good talk and impressing people, it’s now severely lacking confidence and is looking to see what could go wrong. In contrast, the Human in Liz has decided that she will base her confidence on doing her best. The objective, therefore, is to do her best. She cannot control the level of the talk or what people think but she will be able to deal with these outcomes because she is an adult Human. Liz knows that she will definitely do her best, even if at the time it goes wrong and the talk is not quite up to scratch. It will still be the that she can do AT THE TIME of giving the talk. She cannot do better than her best. Therefore, Liz will definitely achieve her objective – ‘doing her best’ – and anything else is a bonus. With this approach she can relax and see the talk as an opportunity. Her confidence in doing her best is 100 per cent. Liz can also remember that she can reward effort rather than just celebrating achievements.”
― Steve Peters

“Never beat yourself up if you handle stress poorly. This is a useless and damaging bad habit. As a bad habit is just a Gremlin we can remove it. Try smiling, relaxing and coming back with enthusiasm. You can only do your best, so accept it.”
― Steve Peters

“In the Human society, we don’t have sticks. Here, an ideal leader is the person who develops the group and encourages them. It is based on the principle that people are doing their best and if they are failing then it means they need more support, guidance or development. People prefer to be encouraged, supported and rewarded, rather than being beaten. Of course there are standards to reach and benchmarks must be set and the consequences of not reaching them clarified.”
― Steve Peters

“Doing my best to make the world a better place through my work and family.”
― Ellen Pao, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

“The best teacher of a book is the author of that book.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“Sometimes, life takes you to a stage where you become oblivious of the world and think that you are the best”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Stella - An extraordinary tale of an ordinary girl

“To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life.”
― Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

“We don’t want you to spend the rest of your life alone. If you found someone great, we would welcome that.” I was so relieved that they had forgiven me, and that I had their blessing. I knew that they’d want what was best for me.”
― C. Vivian Stringer, Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

“We might not have been the best – it’s not reasonable to believe that such a long and complex process resulted in the perfect selection – but all things considered, it seemed we were good enough.”
― Samantha Cristoforetti

“The best you can do is good enough.”
― Sierra Prescott, Shredders: Girls Who Skate