Stephen Fry Quotes

When do any of us ever do enough?

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.