Learned Hand Quotes

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

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.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

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.

I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.