Cheating Oneself Quotes

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

I have realised I have been cheating myself and it is me who pays for it. So I am going to give myself the best opportunity to give my all. It's me who walks in my shoes.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?

Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.