Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

We desire to throw no one into the shade, but we also demand our own place in the sun.

I wouldn't join Miss Universe if I thought somebody else deserved it more than I do.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

You don't want to sell yourself short.

I know what I bring to the table, I know my work. That's why I'm able to push for what I want.

I had to ask myself if the reason I had never asked to direct before was because I really didn't want to, or because I didn't think I deserved a spot at the table.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

There is a middle ground in things.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

People are brought up to think, "It's nice to be modest. It's nice to hide your light under a bushel." Well, bullshit! I've never bought that. In my business, the only thing you've really got is your talent; it's the only thing you have to sell.

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.