LeRoy Neiman Quotes

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

That's my goal, to feel like I've done the best I could. When I've done that, anything else that happens is a bonus.

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

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.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

I always want to grow and top myself.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.