Edmund Hillary Quotes

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

Life should be great rather than long.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

Life is not about money.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.