When you study the lives of truly successful people, those who by most accounts lived or are currently living deeply fulfilled and satisfying lives, a pattern emerges:
Most successful people decided to be happy before they arrived at what is commonly known as ‘success’.
Here’s a look at some of the best quotes on Success & Happiness: –
1. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Maya Angelou
2. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
3. “Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.”
Etel Adnan
4. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein
5. “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.”
Tony Hawk
6. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
John F. Kennedy
7. “Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.”
William Feather
8. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
9. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Helen Keller
10. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr.
11. “One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.”
Jessye Norman
12. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.”
Matt Cameron
13. “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
Arthur Ashe
14. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
15. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
Bruce Lee
16. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
17. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Mark Twain
18. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
19. “The real secret of success is enthusiasm.”
Walter Chrysler
20. “There are three constants in life: change, choice, and principles.”
Stephen Covey
21. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller
22. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill