William Howard Taft Quotes

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

The humility keeps me going forward.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

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.

I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.