Peggy Johnson Quotes

Never allow anyone else to define your success.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

I always say that what's between you and your success is yourself.

I would like to be as successful as Ian Botham was, but if I'm doing anything, I'm doing it as myself.

That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.