Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just 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.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

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

I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.

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

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.