“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
“I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.”
“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
“It is always much better to try your best and fail, than not trying at all.”
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”