My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.
Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.
Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.
In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
I honestly believe that you can change your destiny by working hard.
