William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.

I like seeing people achieve great things.

I am happy that whatever I dreamt of achieving, I have done that.

I am happy wherever I get success.

You can only be content with winning.

I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'

You always want to have success, but you never think it will be as big as it is.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

I want to have it all.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I think that success is having fun.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

I'm living the dream.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.