Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Success is the child of audacity.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.