Thomas Wolfe Quotes

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

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

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.

It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

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.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

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.

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

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

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

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.