“The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.”
“Never set as your goal something that a dead person can do better than you.”
“…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.”
“The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. ”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”