Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

Such joy ambition finds.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

You can never be happy; you can never be satisfied with what you have. You always need to have that want to achieve more, and I definitely want that success.

The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content.

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

I want to have it all.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

I'm living the dream.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.