Carlos Vela Quotes

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

To be happy. That's the only reason I made the decision to come to L.A. It's not only about football; it's more about life.

The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy.

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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.

As long as you are enjoying your wrestling and enjoying what you are doing, that's all that really matters.

For me, more than general box-office collections, what really matters is that I am doing something that I enjoy and love.

I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.

I just do what makes me happy.

If you're not gonna be happy, then it's not worth doing anything.

I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.