B. C. Forbes Quotes

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

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

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

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

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'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

I am happy with the roles I play.

My father's only advice is to 'do what makes you happy,' and I follow it religiously.

For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.

Now, with all my world titles, I am very happy because I can say to all those people that what I chose to do was good for me.

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.

Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life.

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

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.