Dawn Steel Quotes

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

The end of all you’re your actions is to seek the applause of shopkeepers, while you neglect what is most important to you—energy, energy!

You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.

Richard Sherman has kind of the peak of self-confidence. I'm a little below that. But I've learned a lot from him.

I am not competing with anyone. I am competing with myself. When I wake up every day I am only worried about how I can better myself.

I can be very competitive, but I mainly want to challenge myself.

I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

You thrive in your career when you thrive with yourself.