Mark Manson Quotes

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

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

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

Money will not make you happy. It's most important that you need to be happy. You need to do something you want to do.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

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

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

My ambition is to be happy.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

I always believed no matter where you are, as long as you're doing what you love doing, you're going to be happy.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.