Jerry Garcia
Musician
"You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one."
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Being The Best
274 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out."
Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone."
Chris Brown
Singer, Songwriter, Dancer
"To be the best you have to beat the best"
Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do."
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"I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made."
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"Doing your best is more important than being the best."
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"I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it."
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"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."
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"I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!"
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"Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack."
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"I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be."
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"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
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"To be the best you must beat the best."
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"I wanna be the best, simple and plain"
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"The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it."
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"Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe."
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"Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field."
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"I try to be the best I can be at what I can do, and that’s playing hard & rebounding."
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"The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business."
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"I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy."
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"The price of being the best is having to be the best."
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"If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you."
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"Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best."
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"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."
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