Confucius Quotes

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.