Steve Guttenberg Quotes

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

I think success is about purpose. People ask about success at different points in your life. As I look back, I think people that are successful feel good about what they are doing, and they can look back at what they've done and they feel good about it. People sometimes ask about success and they say, "What's your legacy?" and I say, "I think it's really a dumb question." I think the question is: What am I doing now? Do I feel good about myself? Am I proud of myself? Whatever purpose there is in life, I think success is about purpose. It's not about material things.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

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.

I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

I think the people in your life are the people that - when you can make other people happy and you can give things to your family and your friends, you know, that's really obviously what life is all about. But it doesn't have to be children. It doesn't have to be a husband. It can be whatever you make it.

You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need.

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.

All that matters is love and work.

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.

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

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

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy.