Laurence Sterne Quotes

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

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

I always like to improve myself.

I definitely think I'm better just for the simple fact that I feel like each and every day I can get better.

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

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

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

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

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

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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.

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.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

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