Dan Wheldon Quotes

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Feeling successful is internal, not external.

We define our success internally.

For me, whatever the outcome, it's nice to sit back to something and say, "Man, I'm really proud of that. I'm real proud of the experience that I had, I'm proud to be a part of something so iconic whether anyone watches it or not. They can't take away the experience that I had.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

I'm proud of what I've done in my career. I'm proud of what I've accomplished.

It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

My goals aren't really commercial success.

That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

And to be able to do it, to be able to accomplish the goal you've always set for yourself is always a blessing.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.