David Lynch Quotes

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

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

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

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

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night

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.

I just do what makes me happy.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

I believe I am happy. I don't think I have achieved happiness in all areas of my life yet. As far as success is concerned, my family is being taken care of. But I think the last level of happiness would be becoming a father.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

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.

If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

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.