Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

I have never been motivated by money.

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

It's not about the money for me.

I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

I'm not really concerned with the outer success.

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.