Harvey Mackay Quotes

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

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

I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

I've never believed in competition. Everyone's here to do their own thing and become successful in that respect.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

That's just a stressful way to live - saying, 'OK who's doing great, who's doing better than me?' ... Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.