The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.
No one is any more or any less important than you are.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.
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.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.
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