I think that success is having fun.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

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.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

I was an overnight sensation.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Little things affect little minds.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Our intention creates our reality.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Fun is good.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.