Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

You can't think you're God when you score an important goal or the worst player around when its going badly.

I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble - humble or crumble - because it can all go away in the blink of an eye.

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.