Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

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

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

Success isn't about reaching your goals; it's about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It's that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.

I don't regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn't have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.

I guess that I have nothing more to aspire for.

Winning isn't just about the material things you attain, it's about being your best in all you do.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

I am not competing with anyone, I just want to focus on good music, content-driven films and do well in life.