Lynn Johnston Quotes

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

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

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

I was not really as good as I should have been.

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

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.

I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

Men must know their limitations.