Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

For me, success isn't even about money. It's about getting to do what you love and supporting yourself. Everything that comes after that is bonus, unless your only goal is to be rich. If that's your goal, you're going to find out that once you have a little bit, you want a lot. Then once you have a lot, you want a lot more.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

Money can't buy happiness.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

Money cannot buy happiness.

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Success is happiness. People say, "Oh that sounds corny." No matter how rich you are you can only sit your ass in one seat at a time. You have to be comfortable in that seat.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.