Thomas Huxley Quotes

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.

I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I am not overconfident.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

I'm not fighting with myself.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.