Werner Herzog Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

From my position, obviously I want to maximise my potential and go as far as I can go and as high as I can go, but I'm not chasing fame. I get enough of that.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I think you should never really feel like you've 'made it.'

When I won the world title, I am not going to lie, it was an unbelievable feeling. It was like a weight off my shoulders, a goal I'd set myself for so long and one others had talked about. When I got there I realised how I am never satisfied and how I always want more.

I'm definitely driven to go as far as I can.

Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?

I think, personally for me I always work on the next goal and wanna figure out how to achieve it.