Werner Herzog Quotes

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

Excellence requires discomfort.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

That's why I work every day. Ev-er-y day. I want to knock people out.

I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.

I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.

Ask for nothing less than inspiration.

I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.