Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

When you just don't think you can, keep going! Getting through those weak moments is how you become stronger.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.