Persius Quotes

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I don't feel I have to acknowledge how I'm doing by an award.

I'm not really concerned with the outer success.

I don't think I've necessarily got anything to prove to anyone. I've worked really hard my whole career.

I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself.

I don't really see myself as a success. I just don't look at it that way.

I don't feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I've done in fighting.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

I never compare myself to anybody. I don't look at my accomplishments compared to anyone. I'm happy with what I've accomplished in boxing.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.

Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

I feel like I made a little bit of difference.