Harry Chapin Quotes

I'm happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. I sleep well at night.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

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

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

I am happy with what I've done.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

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.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

Happiness cannot help but dance around you when you are fulfilled.

I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.