Charles M. Schulz Quotes

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.

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

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

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

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.