Manu Chao Quotes

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

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

As far as success, I have always felt that success is determined by competitiveness.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Success is difficult to define.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

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.

Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.

Will I be a success? I don't know.

At the end of the day, I want to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

It's both a blessing and a curse. It's great having that goal and never settling, but at the same time I am rarely satisfied with things. I usually walk off stage thinking I can do better next time, it has to be more, more, more. Sometimes you have to just sit down and be like, "I'm in New York right now doing what I love." Look at all these things - I won a EMA last week.

I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Ambition never comes to an end.

I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?