A Quote by Shawn Achor

Happiness is the precursor to success.

Shawn Achor

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Happiness Precursor Success

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Shawn Achor
American - Educator

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

Mikhail Gorbachev

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

Scott Adams

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Herman Cain

I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.

Daniel Lubetzky

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Michael Korda

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Mardy Grothe

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Michael Korda

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.

Deepak Chopra

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Eve Ensler

Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.

Jeff Olson

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.

Desmond Tutu

I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.

Donna Fargo

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

Adam Neumann

Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of ten years, had managed to gain access to much of those precursor chemicals.

John Reid

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

Aristotle

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