John Buchan Quotes

Success has nothing to do with happiness.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

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.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best.

I am happy with what I've done.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.

It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.