Coretta Scott King Quotes

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

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.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.