“My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Variant: you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
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Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Le… 1948Related quotes
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