Tom Rath Quotes

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

I have the ability to clear the decks and focus on what's happening in the moment. And I get to spend my life doing what I love to do.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.