Libba Bray Quotes

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

I don't think I'm successful.

I'm motivated by very small successes.

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

Surrounding yourself with people who are actively and enthusiastically working toward their best futures will keep you moving toward your own goals.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

There's nothing wrong with being driven. And there's nothing wrong with putting yourself first to reach your goals.

For me, it is important to do well in what I'm doing, to achieve the goals I have for myself.

As far as success goes, I've never really got too excited about losing or winning.

That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.