Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Ben Jonson

A good life is a main argument.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

Aldo Leopold

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Bryant H. McGill

If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.

Alain de Botton

If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

Alain de Botton

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

Alain de Botton

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Ajay Devgan

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

Bruce Jenner

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

David Coverdale

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

David Bach

Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

Doug Stanhope

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

Dorothy Allison

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Constantin Brancusi

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Damian Lewis

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

Clive James

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Douglas Horton

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Ann Richards

I have an awfully good life.

Anne Hathaway

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Andrew Young

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

Angelina Jolie

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

Anthony Hopkins

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Donald Trump

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

Connie Britton

I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently.

Corliss Lamont

Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.

Common

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.

Dashiell Hammett

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

Confucius

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

David Benioff

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Meryl Streep

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.