Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

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.

I don't have anything else to prove.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

I'm living out my dreams every day.

Now, with all my world titles, I am very happy because I can say to all those people that what I chose to do was good for me.

The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

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

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

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

I have achieved everything that I ever wanted to accomplish in this game and more so, for me, I have been fulfilled.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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.

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

I want to do really good things with my life.

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.