Happiness and Success as the pursuit of “The Six S’s”
Satisfaction | Security | Status | Search | Social responsibility | Spirituality
Success and happiness as achievement and excellence across six life themes.
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
Sigmund Freud
“Requisites for contented living: health enough to make work a pleasure; wealth enough to support your needs; strength enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; grace enough to confess your sins and overcome them; patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished; charity enough to see some good in your neighbour; love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; faith enough to make real the things of God; hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”
Goethe
“Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell
Seeing life as fundamentally about the drive for happiness and the attainment of a life of contentment; an easy going and light-hearted approach which enjoys life on a day-to-day basis, taking pleasure from the “nice” things in life.
“Just play, have fun, enjoy the game.”
Michael Jordan
“The ultimate goal of an effective life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.”
Michael Leboeuf
“Life is too important to take seriously.”
Corky
“The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.”
Don Marquis
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Eddie Cantor
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers
“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.”
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
A concern to provide stability, personally and for family which anticipates and manages life’s uncertainties and risks; planning systematically for the future to make short-term sacrifices for longer-term goals
“Feeling secure is an important component of happiness.”
Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
“Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.”
E R Stettinius
“Your real security is yourself.”
Mae West
“The future is purchased by the present.”
Samuel Johnson
"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident."
Chuck Knox
“You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.”
H Stanley Judd
“The way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.”
Harold Dodds
“Security is the priceless product of freedom.”
B. E. Hutchinson
“The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.”
Craig Mary
The recognition of the fundamental competitive nature of life which drives you to attain prestige and influence; the desire to stand out as distinctive and special and make an exceptional impact on others
“the hunger for status. …. spurs us to do justice to our talents, encouraging excellence”
Alain de Botton
“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Make your mark on the world, don't just leave a stain.”
Red Symons
“Big results require big ambitions.”
James Champy
“Better to be a 'has been' than to be a 'never was'”
Richard Carlton
“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”
Herbert N. Casson
“The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.”
William Hazlitt
“There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.”
Mary Kay Ash
“Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.”
Spinoza
Seeing life as a journey to be experienced and as an adventure in personal growth and development; the refusal to accept simplistic answers but a commitment to question and challenge to gain a full understanding of the complexity of life’s dilemmas.
“The seeking is the goal and the search is the answer.”
(anon)
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”
Gotthold Lessing
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn. “
George Santayana
“Whatever wisdom may be, it is far off and most profound- who can discover it? So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things"
Ecclesiastes
“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
Plato
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Rene Descartes
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Frank Herbert
“Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.”
Bernard Berenson
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
Andre Gide
“There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
Gertrude Stein
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
John F Kennedy
The recognition that life can only lived with and through others; a sense of duty to discharge obligations towards others and the commitment to make a positive impact on others and to make improvements which benefit everyone.
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein
“Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
Helen Keller
“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
Albert Schweitzer
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
Martin Luther King
“During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade."Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.”
Joann C. Jones
An idealism which is committed to living a life within a “moral compass” and operating around authentic values; a sense of the mysterious in life which sees beyond immediate day-to-day pressures to connect with a bigger purpose in life.
“The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.”
Julius Erving
“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”
Albert Einstein
“If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.&rdquo
Oprah Winfrey
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
Albert Einstein
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
Eleonora Duse
“Greatness is a spiritual condition.”
Matthew Arnold
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
Bible
“Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.”
Israel Zangwill
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
George Bernard Shaw