Yami Gautam Quotes

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along.

I'm still far away from the person I want to be, but whoever this is for now, she's all right.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

Every year you learn as a person, about yourself, what works for you and what doesn't.

Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

I'm a work in progress.

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.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Life is a work in progress.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.