Alan Kulwicki Quotes

We work to become, not to acquire.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

What you become is what counts.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.

I don't know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

To me, you can always get better.

Every person can reach a full life.

I think I'm always learning, I'm always trying to be at my best.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.