Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

The will of man is his happiness.

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

For me, success isn't even about money. It's about getting to do what you love and supporting yourself. Everything that comes after that is bonus, unless your only goal is to be rich. If that's your goal, you're going to find out that once you have a little bit, you want a lot. Then once you have a lot, you want a lot more.

I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

I work for enjoyment and satisfaction - not just to earn a living.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.