Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Deneuve

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Charlie Munger

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Bill Watterson

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Bill Watterson

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Visions and hope and faith are not part of science. They are beyond the nature that science knows. Of such is the religion that gives meaning to life.

Carl Icahn

I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Carl Jung

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

Greg Graffin

Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

John Waters

I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.

John Waters

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Nicholas Winton

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

Ray Charles

You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.

Simon Van Booy

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Theodor Herzl

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Thales

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

Thales

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Thales

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Thales

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Jacque Fresco

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

Henry Giroux

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Henry David Thoreau

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Plato

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Lisa Unger

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

John Ratzenberger

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

James Russell Lowell

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Nicole Holofcener

I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world between those people who do and those that don't. I can't say we walk about our guilt a lot, though. If we do, it probably comes out in the form of self-loathing jokes. But it's a tough thing to wrap your head around... the have's and have not's in the world.

Maya Angelou

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

Maya Angelou

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

Solon

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

Solon

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Solon

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.