Robin Williams Quotes

My biggest competition is me.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.

We are competing against ourselves.

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.

Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.