Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes

When do any of us ever do enough?

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

I don't really spend a lot of time discounting the things I'm doing in hopes that I could be doing something else.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.

It's very rare I'll watch anything I'm a part of and think, 'I wouldn't change a thing.'

I never regret any of the work I've done.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.

I don't have one regret.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.