Michael W. Smith Quotes

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

Fame doesn't make you happy.

You can get money, and you can win awards, and you can be on magazines, but that's not going to make you happy.

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.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.

I thought, 'Write a hit, you'll be rich and happy.' Meet one of the most beautiful girls in the world, one of the most talented and I'll be happy. All of that: I'm not happy.

Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.