Quotes About A Great Life

“Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn't have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.”

— Rob Lowe

“A great life starts within”

— Malka Maxwell

“No one creates a great life without reconnecting to the enthusiasm experienced in childhood.”

— Steve Chandler

“Jesus Christ's guidance is available, but nobody is caring for him. They have taken Jesus Christ as contractor to take up their sins. That is their philosophy. They commit all kinds of sins, and poor Jesus Christ will be responsible. That is their religion. Therefore they say, "We have a very good religion. For all our sinful activities, Jesus Christ will die." Is that good religion? They have no sympathy for Jesus Christ. If they did they would think, "He died for our sins. Why should we commit sins again? Such a great life has been sacrificed for our sins, so we should be guided by Jesus Christ." But they take it otherwise: "Ah, I shall go on committing all sins, and Jesus Christ has made a contract to nullify all my sins; I'll simply go to the church and confess and come back and again do all nonsense." Do you think that shows very good intelligence? Bob: No.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

“Everything I did was pure love. Pure love. And if you live that way, you've had a great life. - 'Ray Bradbury: the last interview and other conversations' by Sam Weller (p.92)”

— Ray Bradbury

“I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.”

— Alan Shearer

“Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?”

— Kristin Davis

“I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.”

— Kim Edwards

“Find a right path and leave beautiful footprints! A life like this will be remembered as a great life!”

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.”

— Gary Lineker

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”

— Lee Iacocca

“A lot of good days..makes a great life !!
Each day is important. Plan & execute it meticulously.”

— Manoj Arora

“I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.”

— Martin Yan

“I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.”

— Marianne Faithfull

“Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.”

— Molly Tarlov

“I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.”

— Christine Taylor

“People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.”

— John Stamos

“I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.”

— Jon Anderson

“I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.”

— Jon Fishman

“Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.”

— Paul Henderson

“I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.”

— Perry Como

“This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.”

— John Malkovich

“As you live your day so you craft your life. Just take care of your days and a great life will take care of itself.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“I have lived a great life. I am very happy.”

— Rod Stewart

“A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.”

— Robin Wright

“We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.”

— Sendhil Mullainathan

“I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.”

— Dick Van Patten

“I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.”

— Lee Daniels

“I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.”

— Lois Lowry

“Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.”

— Jeff Olson

“With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.”

— Ernest Rhys

“It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.”

— Bern Will Brown

“I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.”

— John Lee Hancock

“I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“The Art of Success ... Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm ... Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal ... Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.”

— Wilferd Peterson

“It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.”

— Kate Pierson

“Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.”

— Julia Serano

“It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.”

— Justin Langer

“If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!"”

— David Bowie

“We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!”

— Homer

“I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.”

— Derrick Rose

“I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go, 'That's pretty cool'-if you're playing at the local bar somewhere, or the coffee shop, singing songs, or if you have a gig somewhere and you're singing your own songs, I think that's some version of making it ... It's not just about having commercial success; it's about having a great life.”

— Dierks Bentley

“When you have kids it's nice to have a place where they can always return to and some place where they will grow up in, but I never had that. I'm not attached to things and places. I like that we [the family] keep moving. It's a nomadic life, and I think that's a great life. I'm excited when we take our kids to a new country and they don't just immediately look for the comforts of home. They blend into that country. Send them to any place in the world and they won't be scared. They'll just feel like they can make friends there.”

— Angelina Jolie

“I get so worried about girls with body image stuff And I feel like I have been able to have a fun career and be an on-camera talent and be someone who has boyfriends and love interests and wears nice clothes and those kinds of things without having to be an emaciated stick. And it is possible to do it. In life, you don't have to be that way and you can have a great life, a fun life, and a fulfilling love life.”

— Mindy Kaling

“I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“I'm living the life I always dreamed of living. From the time I was a youngster I wanted to be a celebrity. It's a great life. The only bad thing is that people are more interested in your personal life than they are in your work and it's freaky”

— Jennifer Lopez

“God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.”

— Joel Osteen

“The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing
love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.”

— Rhonda Byrne

“The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.”

— Ricky Gervais