Phillips Brooks Quotes

You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I don't think I'll ever become comfortable with just being here. I always want to take it further.

I've never been here to simply compete.

You can never say you've 'made it,' because that's the day you stop progressing and improving.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.