"We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Life Quotes #Success Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”

Source : "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past" edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2005.
“By teaching others you will learn yourself.”
“Be yourself, until you bleed.”

Source : "Lucifer". Comic book series by Mike Carey (Issue 72: Evensong, Part 2), 1999-2006.
“The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.”
“I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.”
“If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.”
“No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.”
“I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theater.”

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