Lives Quotes

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.