Success Happiness Quotes & Sayings

Have you noticed how often some people use the term 'killing time'? Consider for a moment what this implies. Evidently for some, we've reached a point in our evolution that excess time is now considered a hindrance. What a terrible thought! Let me tell you...if you value your time so little that you'd rather lose than enjoy it, then you need to reevaluate what you're doing with your life. — Todd William

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something. — Steve Maraboli

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected. — Maeve Binchy

No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures. — Debasish Mridha

Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap. — Auliq Ice

That's the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you're not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don't deserve it. — Sara Quin

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure. — Eiji Yoshikawa

If you want something better for your life, you've got to start by believing you deserve it. — Sheryl Sorrentino

Get out of your own way ... stop the paralysis by analysis ... decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving! — Steve Maraboli

I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again. — Nikki Rowe

Happiness is a measure of one's fill of not physical success, but of mental and spiritual success. — Lionel Suggs

Most people think the more money, luxury or fame they have, the more successful they are; but I think that the true sign of success depends on how many positive emotions they experience each day. — Maddy Malhotra

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl

This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin. — Rajneesh

I often would think about how we have built our society, and when you describe it out loud, it sounds rather insane. The idea of being funnelled through a conventional life progression of education, work, career, marriage, kids, divorce, retirement and then death doesn't seem that inspiring to me.
Then we're told we have to struggle to make a living, sacrifice enjoyment to have a family, delay our happiness until we're retired, fight the next person for a job, climb the ladder of success to get an even more stressful job,
spend more money than we earn, go into debt, live in fear of being blown up by some terrorist and then have TV passed off as the only way to escape it all. And when all of this gets too much and you can't keep up, you get prescribed antidepressants and made to feel like you've failed. — Josh Langley

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other. — Maxwell Maltz

For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number. — Blaise Cendrars

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go. — Bill Crawford

By declaring complete responsibility for being in your cocoon, and total responsibility for leaving. We become trapped when we avoid taking responsibility for the conditions in our lives. We're trapped further by blaming others for lack of fulfillment, success, and happiness. — Doreen Virtue

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things. — Bennett Miller

Happiness is not the Achievement of Dreams.
It is the Path to Dreams. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Success is a process, but a failure is a forward step for success. — Debasish Mridha

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish. — Dee Dee Artner

Whatever you expect, you will get. So expect success, not regret. — Debasish Mridha

The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve — Agona Apell

Many people strive for success in order to find happiness when, in fact, the inverse is true. Strive for happiness and you shall find success. — Steve Maraboli

Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose. — Debasish Mridha

I will be forever grateful for your presence in my life. I am a much better human being because of you. The experience of loving you, living with you, was the greatest journey of my life thus far. You showed me an alternative to the man I was becoming.
I know I still have much to learn, much to accomplish, and I know my future is bright. I owe you the confidence I now have in myself. This is the confidence that could only come from the knowledge that a woman of your caliber loved me for who I am; for what you saw in me.
You are a great woman and I mean that in the strongest sense of the phrase. You feel deeply, think deeply, and live deeply. I admire so much about you. Regardless of whether our paths cross again, know that I am actively wishing you success and happiness. I pray that you will once again be part of my life. But if left with just the experience we've shared, I know my life was better because of it. — Emma Forrest

It was not happiness - she was very sad to know that victory had required such an appalling act. But success was success, victory was victory. She — Marissa Meyer

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. — Michael Korda

I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life. — Tony Hsieh

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others. — Sharon Salzberg

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us. — George Allen

Like what? The things Literature was all about: love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, justice, revolution, war, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, the individual against society, success and failure, murder, suicide, death, God. And barn owls. — Julian Barnes

Our most important duty in life is to love. Our most important success in life is happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past. — Rob Martin

We all love to take responsibility for success and happiness. Hell, we often fight over who gets to be responsible for success and happiness. But taking responsibility for our problems is far more important, because that's where the real learning comes from. That's where the real-life improvement comes from. To — Mark Manson

ReThink your success mindset: In life, the stuff that really matters most, is invisible, but palpable. — Tony Dovale

Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success. — Debasish Mridha

Don't work harder, work happier. — Alexander Kjerulf

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. — Steve Maraboli

It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway. — Felix Buxton

Biggest obstacle in the way of success is the fear of failure. — Debasish Mridha

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life ... is death. — Stephen Jenkinson

Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind. — Rob Martin

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. — Anna Pavlova

Do not chase happiness. Instead, define success for yourself; then go out and live it. Be unapologetic in your commitment and honorable in your behavior. When you live in this manner, happiness chases you. — Steve Maraboli

Goal-oriented actions bring success but actions with love and kindness bring happiness. — Debasish Mridha

The level of happiness you experience through your interactions depends on the quality of your walk in love. — Mensah Oteh

Stop rejecting that unique pathway that was designed exclusively for you. Embrace your destiny, respect yourself and love others. — Auliq Ice

If he was dull as a statesman he was more dull in private life, and it may be imagined that such a woman as his wife would find some difficulty in making his society the source of her happiness. Their marriage, in a point of view regarding business, had been a complete success, - and a success, too, when on the one side, that of Lady Glencora, there had been terrible dangers of shipwreck, and when on his side also there had been some little fears of a mishap. — Anthony Trollope

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. — Steve Maraboli

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

A man once told me, money was the pathway to success; he was the poorest man i know. — Nikki Rowe

We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love. — Steve Maraboli

Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success. — Debasish Mridha

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work. — Shawn Achor

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel. — Esther Hicks

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

100% of a Guru's marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough; that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of that belief and connected with the truth of your innate power to change and shape your life? You ARE enough. You CAN change and shape your own life. Anyone who tells you different is simply lying. Your life has immeasurable potentiality for greatness; act accordingly. — Steve Maraboli

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable. — Steve Maraboli

A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year ... — Shelby Foote

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing. — Wayne Dyer

For success, focus on your goal, not an obstacle. — Debasish Mridha

Adversity could be an advantage in the future.
To be a success, take the advantage of adversity whenever possible. — Debasish Mridha

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves. — Denis Waitley

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got - nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it. — Eugene O'Neill

When you fill life with mourning and complaints, your accomplishments will be a little lower than success. — Auliq Ice

If you face the light, shadow will always be behind you. — Sukant Ratnakar

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
— Brian Tracy

Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present. — Rob Martin

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness — Swami Vivekananda

Don't be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don't stop dreaming. — Auliq Ice

Have faith in the truth. Faith can move mountains. — Walter E. Jacobson

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. — Nick Saban

There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality. — Steve Maraboli

From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen princess of the prom, to win election to student government. Thereby and only thereby, we learned, could we expect to gain admission to the right college, which in turn would get us into Harvard Medical School: life's one sure path to meaningful success and lasting happiness. — Jon Krakauer

Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion and spirituality, relationships, material success. All this can work, but also become a problem itself.
The pursuit of happiness has even been put into the American constitution a couple centuries ago. Today we're so rich, we own much more than we need, we have liberties unknown before, even though they are endangered in the current political climate in the US - and we forget how wonderful it nevertheless is, compared to most other political and economic systems. We have a saying that goes: Give a man enough rope and he hangs himself. — David Foster Wallace

Many of us live with incredible tension and anxiety because we think that our dreams will come true if we just get the right degree, if we just meet the right people, if we just get the right job. We assume our happiness is tied to our success, and our success depends on our performance. So we sweat and struggle and scheme and strategize, and we wonder why we aren't enjoying life. — Judah Smith

Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you. — Steve Maraboli

Life is not a matter of choices! Life is handed to you, a couple of cards that have cycled through the grimy hands of hundreds of players before you. There are no aces hidden up your sleeve. There is no shortcut to success and happiness. Sleight of hand will only earn you a bloody nose and a thrashing in the alley outback. So instead, you play the few good cards you have and do what you can with the bad, and you play fair. There is no choice. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Happiness, success, peace, and love are experienced when we live accordingly. They are not something you have, they are something you DO. — Steve Maraboli

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys. — Zig Ziglar

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life. — John Templeton

For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness. — T. Harv Eker

Like many people, I consider myself an incurable romantic, and there is a part of me that will always believe in walking off into the sunset to live happily ever after. When I was younger, like many children, I assumed I would get married, live in a nice house, and have a couple of kids. I also assumed this very traditional achievement would bring me endless happiness and romance. So much so, that during my college years I considered girls engaged by graduation to be the epitome of success. Perhaps needless to say, I was not one of those girls. — Robi Ludwig

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure". — Murad S. Shah

Not everyone understand everything. — Dee Dee Artner

Every job I was denied for ... opened the door to new opportunities. Every relationship that hurt me ... led me to my true love. Every mistake I thought would be the end of me ... pointed me towards an incredible success. Sometimes when you think you're losing, you're winning. — Steve Maraboli

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. — Hugh Laurie

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC. — Adrian Grenier

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream. — Oprah Winfrey

When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference. — Amy Neftzger

If you have a great purpose and develop good habits of persistence and patience, you will be great success. — Debasish Mridha

Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know. — Flannery O'Connor

By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You ... — Gary Lockwood

If you say you can't, you won't!
The only thing holding you back from success is yourself. — Jody Provost

What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe