Martin Yan Quotes

As long as I'm happy, I don't care about accolades or anything else.

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. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.

I am happy with what I've done.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

You can be happy when you feel happy from inside, and when you have worked, you are your happiest.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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.

Success now is waking up in the morning and being comfortable in my own skin. You can go to a job that pays well, but if you're not happy in yourself or if you're not grateful for what you have, it means nothing.

It's not me standing on the podium with medals. It's me being able to walk out with a smile on my face and truly being happy with myself.

I'm happy. I don't care what other people say or think. I'm happy. I'm blessed. I'm proud of my life, and that's it. That's all that matters.