Sayani Gupta Quotes

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.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

I inspire myself.

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

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

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.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

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

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that I'm proud of, and I think that's important. Now, do I need a church to tell me that? Actually, no, I don't.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.