Life Quotes - Page 530

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

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

How many things are there which I do not want.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

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.

Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good report. Making a living is best undertaken as part of the more important business of making a life. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands-a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

I think it's important for girls at a young age to be involved in as many things as possible. Especially safe communities of people that teach them great life lessons like self-confidence and courage. And getting girls to go to camp especially in the summer where they can meet new friends, learn new things, and not just sit at home and watch TV.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

Haters can keep on hating.