Ken Blanchard Quotes

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

My dream was to make it in life. I didn't know how it was going to be. My brother guided me toward a wrestling ring, and I gravitated to it very quickly. It seemed like deja vu for me, and I said, 'Wow, I think this might be it.'

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

My friends don't understand, whether it's belonging to a country club or playing golf, or whatever a vacation is, that should make you happy. And it's like, "No, happiness is much deeper." I think people have to struggle to find things that give them purpose, the real meaning. Why am I alive? Why did God bless me with these skills or these resources? What am I to do with them? If God just lets some person be very fortunate, let's say financially, it's kind of a funny God.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.