Jimmy Barnes Quotes

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

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

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I guess that I have nothing more to aspire for.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I want to do really good things with my life.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

I really just want to do the best at everything I do. I just want to have all the great people around me that I feel is family, as well as my friends, and I have an amazing girlfriend. I think having love in your life is most important.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

I'm in a great place because I've gone full circle.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.