Vincent Nichols Quotes

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

This is the only life I'm ever going to have, so shouldn't I at least try to be happy?

My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

I am happy with the roles I play.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

I want to be able to enjoy my life to the fullest so I can add something to the lives of people around me.