William Hazlitt Quotes

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

The principle is competing against yourself.

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

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

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.

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.

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

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.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

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.

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

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

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

My competition is with my growth to where I want to see myself.

It's nice to be able to do more and to always challenge myself.

I'm always thinking about the private battle, even in the field. I'm always trying to be better than the other person I'm against.

My improvements, my fights and the competition is going to get better. I'm going to be ready for it.

I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.

I'm always trying to one-up myself.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.