Setting a goal to be the best takes hard work and dedication.
It’s about giving your all every hour of every day.
When you aim for anything less than being number one you’re not being true to your potential.
This article emphasizes the importance of not cheating yourself by always striving for the top.
Let’s get started.
Cheating Yourself Quotes
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. ~ Marla Gibbs.
If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life. ~ Vince Lombardi.
Do something because you really want to do it. If you’re doing it just for the goal and don’t enjoy the path, then I think you’re cheating yourself. ~ Kalpana Chawla.
In your mind you are cheating somebody, but in reality you are cheating yourself. ~ Cyc Jouzy.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. ~ Sophocles.
If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. ~ Napoleon Hill.
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. ~ Stephen Covey.
It’s much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don’t put yourself in those situations, you know? ~ Ali Larter.
Best Cheating Yourself Quotes
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It’s so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that’s where you start to cheat yourself – and your fans, in the end – because there’s an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone’s expecting. ~ The Edge
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness…..Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart? ~ Pema Chodron
You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater; You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned. ~ David Levithan
The irony of multitasking is that it’s exhausting: when you’re doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You’re also cheating yourself because your’re not doing anything excellently. You’re compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you’re ‘distracted from distractions by distractions’. ~ Twyla Tharp
Don’t cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it. ~ Bill Withers
Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself. ~ Tony Lema
If you give me anything less than your best, you’re not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent. ~ Vince Lombardi
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you’re creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay. ~ Dan Ariely.
Famous Cheating Yourself Quotes
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will. ~ John D. MacDonald
Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don’t shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream! ~ John C. Maxwell
Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don’t take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them. ~ Willie Stargell
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life. ~ David McCullough
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. ~ Salvador Dali
Be proud of yourself. Try to eat well…and when you cheat, enjoy it! ~ Diane von Furstenberg.
You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know. ~ Jerry Spinelli
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? ~ Abraham Polonsky
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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. ~ Don Shula
There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. ~ Steven Curtis Chapman.
Emotional Cheating Yourself Quotes
We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little. ~ Luigi Pirandello
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself. ~ Don Shula
Just ask yourself, if we weren’t taught to be women, what would we be? ~ Karen Joy Fowler
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. ~ Dr. Seuss
When you go to make a purchase, take a look at the product and ask yourself: ‘am I being cheated?’ If a product from a ‘fast fashion’ chain is falling apart before you’ve even bought it, it’s not a deal. It’s the fast-fashion company trying to get you to buy something that is quick on trend but slow on quality. ~ Maxine
We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That’s not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone’s cheated. I’m just saying that you don’t need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that’s not who you are. You’re someone who cheated. There’s a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that’s who you’ll grow up to be. ~ Anne Lamott
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ~ Pierre Charron
When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you’re cheating yourself out of a really good time. ~ Steve Vai
Libertarianism is the simple morality we learned as children: Don’t strike first, don’t steal or cheat, keep your promises. If you inadvertently fail to live up to these standards, make it up to the person you’ve harmed. If someone harms you, you may defend yourself as needed to stop the aggressor and obtain reparations. This simple morality works group-to-group just as it works one-to-one to bring about a peaceful and prosperous world. ~ Mary Ruwart
You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: ‘If you’re asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you’re only cheating yourself’. ~ Alan Shearer
I don’t want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home. ~ Michael Zaslow.
Meaningful Cheating Yourself Quotes
Vice, virtue – it’s best not to be too moral. You’ll cheat yourself out of too much life. ~ Ruth Gordon
If you’re going to cheat and take people’s history and you’re not writing the Bible, you ain’t really so great. But if you try to do it in a way that doesn’t hurt too many people, then you probably can get out of bed in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror. ~ James McBride
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work’s important, family’s important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You’re cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what’s coming. ~ Nicholas Sparks.
I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there’s somehow a magic “one size fits all” solution. That, “If it works for you it’s going to work for me,” and it’s just a matter of figuring out what that habit would be, whether that’s do it first thing in the morning, or start small, or do it for thirty days, or give yourself a cheat day. ~ Gretchen Rubin.
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results. ~ David Levithan.
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know. ~ Jerry Spinelli.
