Ben Carson Quotes

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.

We don't feel like we're famous. We just feel like we're doing what we love.

If my life and music brings a smile or makes a difference in any individual's life, then there is nothing beyond for me as a god's gift.

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

The purpose of your life is Joy.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

The purpose of life is Joy.

Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.