James McAvoy Quotes

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

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

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Success now is waking up in the morning and being comfortable in my own skin. You can go to a job that pays well, but if you're not happy in yourself or if you're not grateful for what you have, it means nothing.

Self-esteem is crucial to how much or how little contentment you feel at the end of your life.

Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

I want to live a full life - period.

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

I've realised I can be happy.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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.

Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

It's not a bad time to be me.

Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

I'm happy with the person I become.