Keith Olbermann Quotes

My happiness is not going to be driven solely on whether we win a Super Bowl or not.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

I don't need to be on the number one show. Number 25 is fine.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?

I'll never feel like I've made it.

Success doesn't make you happy.

Success without fulfillment is failure.

Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family. That was always a goal of mine. Now that I'm doing that, I think we have this idea, "Once that's achieved, all complaints will leave and I will be happy and be filled!" And I didn't have that.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

Being successful is kind of dull.

But, no, I don't feel my career has not been fulfilled because I didn't win the US Open. It's like the guy said: You going to crucify a man because he missed a putt to win a tournament? Does a three-foot putt mean his whole life? Another guy said, well, he couldn't win the big one. Well, Jesus, what do you call those others? What's big and what's small?

I'm happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. I sleep well at night.

I am happy wherever I get success.

I'm appreciating every single bit of success I get, no matter how small.

Why am I here? Yes, to win titles, because then I will feel happy for the people. But the process is the reason why.

I'm living the dream, man.

The new Khaled is enjoying life, man. Because you know what, nobody is going to congratulate you on what you really deserve.

Anytime you get rewarded for all the work you put into this game, you're going to be happy about it.

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

Now, with all my world titles, I am very happy because I can say to all those people that what I chose to do was good for me.