Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reese Witherspoon

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

Richard Branson

Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

Tina Yothers

Be all you can be and live a good life, have fun with it.

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.

Suzanne Somers

I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us...

Umberto Eco

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Reinhold Niebuhr

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

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.

Solon

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

St. Jerome

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

Roger Daltrey

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

Sam Simon

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

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.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

William Osler

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Zig Ziglar

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.