Vidya Balan Quotes

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I came to love, I came into my own.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

No longer do I have these terrible complexes I had when I was younger, and I am able to enjoy what life's offering me.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

I'm not satisfied in the sense I am not looking for any roles, but I do make peace with myself saying that 'I am not the best in the world.' But I have tried to give my best, and I want to get better.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I've got to be happy with myself when this ride is over.