Harvey Fierstein Quotes

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.

My supplements are similar to my training - I always commit to being a better version of myself.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are!

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.