Brad Pitt Quotes

The true success is the person who invented himself.

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

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

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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 think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

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.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

My success is not who I am.

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.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.