“Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.”

Michael Korda

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need”

Vernon Howard

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

William Saroyan

“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get”

Bernard Meltzer

“What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

Albert Camus

“To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

Bob Dylan

“Know that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.”

Roy M. Goodman

“Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.”

Alex Noble

“Try not to be a person of success but a person of virtue.”

Albert Einstein

“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”

Don Herold

“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”

  Bernard de Fontenelle

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”

Elbert Hubbard

“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.”

George Burns

“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.”

Eric Hoffer

“Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.”

Donald A. Miller

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

Ernest Hemingway

It is impossible to be happy or successful. Happiness and success is random. And in fact, life for the most is miserable. So, don’t expect anything much else.

“Youth is not enough.  And love is not enough.  And success is not enough.  And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.”

Mignon McLaughlin

“Success is entirely due to luck. Ask anyone who has failed.”

Oscar Wilde

“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

Joseph Heller

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Ernes Hemingway

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

Gustave Flaubert

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”

Mark Twain

“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.”

Cyril Connolly

“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”

Ogden Nash

“Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

George Burns

“The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.”

Malcolm Muggeridge

“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.”

Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

Ambrose Bierce

“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”

Johnny Carson

“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”

Gore Vidal

“Success is the sweetest revenge.”

Vanessa Williams

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it's all over much too soon.”

Woody Allen

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"

Zaphod in Douglas Adams

“Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.”

  Peter C. Newman 

“Don’t be happy being unhappy.”

(anon)

Success makes us complacent, miserable and the price is too high.

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

BillGates

“Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it.  We learn only from failure.”

Kenneth Boudling

“The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“Nothing fails like success.”

Richard Pascale

“One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.”

G K Chesterton

“Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.”

Prince

“The problem with the rat race is even if you win you're still a rat.”

Lily Tomlin

“Don't attempt to attain success at any and all costs, the price may prove too high.”

Joseph Martino

“If I’d known what it would have been like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.”

Lily Tomlin

“The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.”

M. W. Little

“The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.”

Irving Berlin