Lao Tzu Quotes

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.

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.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

You find happiness where you find it.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

I feel loved. That's more important to me than being an All-Star, honestly.

You can get money, and you can win awards, and you can be on magazines, but that's not going to make you happy.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

If money does not make you happy, give it back

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

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.

Success has nothing to do with happiness.

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

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.