Douglas Wilson Quotes

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

It's true I wasn't as important at Chelsea. I never demanded that. What I wanted was to be a champion, because few people get that. I succeeded. But the happiness wasn't there.

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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

I like happy endings.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

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

There's nothing like success.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

I feel good. I think everything went good.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

I never felt like I had made it.

I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.

I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Yes, 'Spider-Man' has had an infinite capacity to trouble and disappoint. But it's also been the greatest triumph of my entire career.

The happy ending is our national belief.

It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.