Steve Young Quotes

The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

I don't compete with others, but compete with myself.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

The best competition I have is against myself to become better

My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be

For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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

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

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.