Cheating Yourself Quotes

• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Cheating, Learning

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• I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

  Sophocles

  Life, Cheating, Failure

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• 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

  Cheating, Goal, Victory

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• 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

  Sports, Football, Cheating

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• 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

  Dream, Cheating, Risk

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.240, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Life, Change, Cheating

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• 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

  Cheating, Mean, Kids

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• 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

  Cheating, Two, Energy

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cheating, Ethics And Morals

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Cheating, Honesty, Integrity

  "The Turquoise Lament". Book by John D. MacDonald, November 1973.

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• 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

  Music, Cheating, Business

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• 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

  Motivational, Cheating, Morning

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cheating, Integrity

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• 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

  Cheater, Infidelity, Broke

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• 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

  Cheating, Hard Work, Numbers

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Inspiring, Yesterday And Today

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.222, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

  Ruth Gordon

  Meaningful, Vices, Meaning Of Life

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• There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Marriage, Running, Cheating

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• 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

  Cheating, Brother, Hate

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• I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

  Woody Allen

  Cheating, Nyu, Wife

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• 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

  Cheating, Important, Anticipation

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Cheating, Important, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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