Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

At some point in your life, you need to sit down and say, 'What do I want to do? How do I want to be remembered? What's my legacy? And what's important to me?'

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Success without fulfillment is failure.