Famous Quotes & Sayings

Polykarp Kusch

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.

Sarah Vowell

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

Rob Lowe

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

Richard G. Scott

Personally, I am enthusiastic about the future. You can be too. You are living in the most exciting period of time in history. Many reasons could be cited for that optimism. Yet your greatest source of hope and assurance is that you have the fulness of the teachings of the Master. They will show you how to live a good life. You can receive ordinances and covenants that when righteously lived assure true happiness and significant attainment.

Roald Dahl

If you are good life is good.

Samuel Johnson

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Vincent Nichols

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Wallace Stegner

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Virginia Gildersleeve

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Tim Tebow

When you die there's going to be a tombstone. It's going to have your name. It's gonna have the year you're born and the day you die. In between there's going to be a dash. And that dash is going to represent everything you did in your life, good and bad. That's how you're remembered. What do you want your dash to represent?

Victoria Osteen

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

Herbert Spencer

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Jerry Garcia

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

Jennifer Lopez

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

James C. Collins

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Jeremy Luke

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

Emma Forrest

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Herbert Hainer

Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.

Ernest Hemingway

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Ian Mckellen

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

Huey Newton

Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.

Hosea Ballou

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Gore Vidal

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

Christina Rossetti

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few ...

Chris Pine

The more you are positive and say, I want to have a good life, the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

Felicity Kendal

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

Henny Youngman

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Ethel Barrymore

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

Mika

Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!

Jim Butcher

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

H. P. Lovecraft

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

Burt Lancaster

The first duty of life is to live.