118 Pushing Ourselves Quotes

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Famous Pushing Ourselves Quotes

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand - Robin Sharma

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand — Robin Sharma

We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. — Travis Rice

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive. — Dan John

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great. — Kerri Strug

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing. — Martin Margiela

Discomfort is a sign that we are pushing ourselves to become the best version of ourselves. — Michael Easter

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad. — Andrew Dice Clay

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing, and seeing how far I can go. — Sayings

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. — Sylvie Guillem

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth. — Travis Rice

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

Discomfort is a sign that we are pushing ourselves beyond our current comfort zone. — Michael Easter

True fulfillment comes from embracing challenges and pushing our limits. — Michael Easter

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself. — Walter Payton

Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow! — Gary Brecka

Short Pushing Ourselves Quotes

  • One finds limits by pushing them. — Herbert Simon
  • Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. — Harold W. Dodds
  • It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them. — Katherine Reutter
  • We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves. — Michael McClure
  • We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves. — Orison Swett Marden
  • We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. — Tobias Wolff
  • We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose. — Octavia Butler
  • Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place. — Snoop Dogg

Pushing Ourselves Image Quotes

Pushing ourselves quote Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.

Pushing Each Other Quotes

We're professionals and we made a pact to each other when we created the show that if we ever felt it was getting stale or repetitious or not pushing the format in new and interesting ways, we would stop doing it. — James Murray

I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It's a push. — Kevin Nealon

A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired. — T. H. White

Pushing ourselves quote Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing. — Jay Roach

Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are. — Willow Smith

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. — Leo Buscaglia

Pushing ourselves quote Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE. — Marcus Aurelius

A team that is always fun with witty sense of humor. We help each other around a lot and help push each other to be better — Min

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions. — Errollyn Wallen

There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy. — Libba Bray

Challenging Myself Quotes

To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it. — Sonakshi Sinha

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball. — Kendrick Lamar

In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents. — G-Eazy

Pushing ourselves quote My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. — Muhammad Ali

It is the ultimate challenge of you against yourself. Everyone has different genetics, structure, etc. But at the end of the day, I can always challenge myself to beat the me from yesterday. — Layne Norton

I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting. — David Thewlis

Pushing ourselves quote If your friends don't push you to be your best, you need new ones.
If your friends don't push you to be your best, you need new ones.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun

I'm here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that's actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about. — Tom Hardy

Maybe some people think that it’s all about the hype, about the fame, but it’s not. It’s all about being the best. It’s all about challenging myself everyday. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display. — Yohji Yamamoto

Pushing It Quotes

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home. — Snoop Dogg

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere

We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money. — Woody Hayes

Pushing ourselves quote Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams
Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. — Richard M. DeVos

Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall — Tupac Shakur

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. — Albert Camus

Pushing ourselves quote If your friends dont push you to be your best, you need new ones.
If your friends dont push you to be your best, you need new ones.

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does! — Saul Bass

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living. — Malcolm X

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. — Patrick Lencioni

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met. — Madeleine L'Engle

Stretching Yourself Quotes

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm. — Cicely Tyson

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life. — Les Brown

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. — Carol S. Dweck

Pushing ourselves quote It's not about the end goal. It's about who you become by consistently pushing the edge of your limi
It's not about the end goal. It's about who you become by consistently pushing the edge of your limits.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love. — Cheryl Strayed

You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know. — Mary Wells Lawrence

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. — Ruth Stout

Pushing ourselves quote Passion is pushing yourself when no one else is around.
Passion is pushing yourself when no one else is around.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights. — Sarah Beeny

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. — Jim Rohn

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination. — Robert H. Schuller

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. — Ruth Stout

Pushing Boundaries Quotes

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us. — Alan Watts

There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you! — Paula Radcliffe

Pushing ourselves quote Don't be pushed my your problems, be led by your dreams
Don't be pushed my your problems, be led by your dreams

Success is a work in progress. It’s not about achieving a goal, it’s about constantly improving and pushing boundaries. — Jensen Huang

Every day, I'm trying to push the boundaries creatively, and sometimes it does push the boundary too far, and that's what I had to learn. — Jake Paul

I think a lot of social media creators have always been, like, content and haven't pushed the limits because no one else had pushed the limits before. I say to myself, 'How can I create my own TV show online every day and actually make it a real production and put effort into it?' — Jake Paul

Pushing ourselves quote We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

I’m not the type of person to just settle. I always want to push boundaries. — KSI

I like to push my body to the limits. — Jake Paul

The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone. Take risks and push your boundaries. — Steven Bartlett

If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise. — Jeanne Gang

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More Pushing Ourselves Quotes

All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction — William James

We never feel completely ready for life's big decisions; but in taking the leap, we push ourselves to the next level. — Patrick Bet-David

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

We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence. — Farrah Gray

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

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others. — Noah Levine

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

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred — Alfred Armand Montapert

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all. — Joan Didion

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free. — Lauren Fleshman

We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet. — Jeff Corwin

Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away. — Lewis Pugh

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

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. — Ann Bancroft

In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely. — Naomi Klein

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music. — Jeff Tweedy

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy. — Charles Spurgeon

Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting. — Anthony Hopkins

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward. — Justin Lin

For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so? — Robert Higgs

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves. — Ice Cube

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically. — Chogyam Trungpa

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

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us. — Rupert Murdoch

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive. — Bear Grylls

I think we're always trying to push ourselves to do new things. — Jaime Preciado

It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away. — Anne Marie Miller

It's something I deal with to this day, a fear of falling back into that darkness. I see athletes go through a similar thing. ... With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. — Clara

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

The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it. — Robert McKee

I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place. — Bonnie Baker

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. — Ann Bancroft

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. — Clara Hughes

I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them. — Blaise Pascal

We try to continually push ourselves to do more and more, not just on the hardware side but also in terms of developers' tools so they can take advantage of the hardware that's there, in the best way. — Tim Cook

Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushing the envelope a little bit too far. We weren't happy with the distribution we were getting, and a few other things. So for a lot of ways it made sense for us to jump to a major label right then, and it made sense in terms of challenging ourselves to put ourselves in new situations. — Lee Ranaldo

The emphasis on personal responsibility is something we've had in black America from the get-go. Every major leader and intellectual worth her salt has advocated for black folk to better ourselves and push ourselves to the limits of our abilities and gifts. At the same time, we've got to focus on creating a society that recognizes our worth, regardless of race and other factors. — Michael Eric Dyson

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