Mort Sahl Quotes

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

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

I try to practice with my life.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

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

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.

We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

I'm always looking at things and seeing how I can improve upon them. I think it's my responsibility to focus on how I can do better, as opposed to what I've done well.

I'm definitely not satisfied and I always want to do better and learn more and get better.