Alain de Botton Quotes

I will never feel successful.

I'm stupidly proud of myself.

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

To be proud of something is a really nice feeling.

I'm just pretty proud of myself.

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

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

It's dead nice to know I've achieved something.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful. I feel like I did well.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

My body of work means nothing to me.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

I'm proud of everything I've done.

I am happy with what I've done.