Niki Lauda Quotes

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

Our friends must not expect us to do things we cannot do.

Sometimes you've got to put your realistic glasses on and see who you are.

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

There is no recipe for that. Both [Nico Rosenberg and Lewis Hamilton] are very likely equally talented in the car, so the fight between the two happens between the ears - in the head.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.