Lou Reed Quotes

Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.

To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

I don't need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control--yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.