Tim Minchin Quotes

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.

I am learning to be more humble and giving as a person.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

I want to be a good human being.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.