Willem Dafoe Quotes

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

I don't have anything to prove, but I do like to challenge myself.

How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

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

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

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

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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

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