Marcus Buckingham Quotes

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

I always think about myself as, like, a regular person. I want to be able to enjoy everything.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

You know, sometimes you're jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I've come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.

I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.

What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.