Naveen Patnaik Quotes

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

I am happy with what I've done.

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

I'm happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. I sleep well at night.

There is a great deal of reward when you do good work and people see how successful that work is and the happiness it brings to them.

I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'

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.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.

I believe the relationships and emotions you experience when you have success are the things that last forever.

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 been a terrific life.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.