Ueli Steck Quotes

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

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

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

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.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

It's important to be successful, and not just because there is competition, but also because it leads to better work for you.