We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Success is not a stop sign.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

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!

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

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

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.