Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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 do things that I actually love and understand.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

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 have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

My life is my argument.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.