Liv Ullmann Quotes

I want to have it all.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

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.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

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

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

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 know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.'

Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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.

I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

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?

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.