Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

The remark frames “success” as an inward condition rather than a public scorecard. Carson links vocational fit (“a job you don’t enjoy”) to self-regard and psychological equilibrium (“you’ll like yourself… inner peace”), suggesting that sustained dissatisfaction corrodes identity. The final clause redefines achievement: if one has contentment and health, external markers—money, prestige, acclaim—become secondary, even anticlimactic. Read against Carson’s celebrity, the sentiment functions as a cautionary counterweight to fame: the life that looks successful can still be hollow if it lacks daily satisfaction and personal well-being. It also echoes a broadly humanistic ethic that prioritizes mental and physical flourishing over careerist endurance.