You should never try to be better than someone else

You should never try to be better than someone else. Always learn from others. Never sease trying to be the best that you could be. That is under your control. If you are too engrossed into things that you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.

Definition of success: Peace of mind attending only through self satisfaction in knowing you made the best of the effort of which you are capable of. Others cannot judge it. Your reputation is what you are perceived to be. Your character is what you really are.

Believe that the ways will work out the way we want it to provided we do what we should.

Sometimes I think the Fates must grin as we denounce them and insist the only reason we can't win, is the Fates themselves that miss.

Yet there lives on the ancient claim:

We win or lose within ourselves. The shining trophies on our shelves can never win tomorrow's game.

You and I know deeper down, there's always a chance to win the crown,

But when we fail to give our best,

we simply haven't met the test, of giving all

and saving none until the game is really won.

Of showing what is meant by grit.

Of playing through when other Quit,

Of playing though, not letting up.

It's beating down that wins the cup. Of dreaming there's a goal ahead.

Of hoping when our dream are dead.

Of praying when our hopes are fled.

Yet losing, not afraid to fall,

if bravely we have given all. For who can ask more of a man

then giving all within his span.

Giving all, it seems to me, is not so far from vistory.

And so the fates are seldom wrong, no matter how they twist and wind,

It's you and I who make our fates.

We open up or close the gates on the road ahead or the road behind.

Never mention Winning. You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.

Hold your head up after a game. When a game is over, and you see somebody that didn't know the outcome, I hope they cound't tell by your actions whether you outscored an opponent or the opponent outscored you.

If you make the effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not necessary to be what you want them to be, but they will be about what they should.

The result of the game should be the byproduct of your best effort and not the end result.

"The journey is better than the end" - Cervantes

- My notes from a talk by John Wooden (source)