Lifelong Quotes

#1. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Robert W. Service

#2. I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

Anne Tyler

#3. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#4. Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#5. What I feared most, though, about my decision to remain celibate was that I had thereby doomed myself to lifelong loneliness.

Wesley Hill

#6. Pain beneath every breath is the only reason of someones lifelong success.

Vishal Bhojwani

#7. Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#8. Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

Wallace Stegner

#9. Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Brad Feld

#10. I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback.

Tim Tebow

#11. And remember, following Christ is a lifelong journey. Christians are foot soldiers, so to speak. Always learning. Always growing stronger.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#12. I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

James Patterson

#13. Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

Caitlin Thomas

#14. Today's world needs a workforce of creative, curious, and self-directed lifelong learners who are capable of conceiving and implementing novel ideas. Unfortunately, this is the type of student that the Prussian model actively suppresses.

Salman Khan

#15. My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste. In my lifelong struggle to avoid becoming him, I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all.

Gillian Flynn

#16. I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

Karen Armstrong

#17. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Socrates

#18. I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Will Durant

#19. Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

Susan Polis Schutz

#20. He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

Chang-rae Lee

#21. As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Eli Broad

#22. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#23. To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

Kano Jigoro

#24. Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Paul Auster

#25. How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?

Gloria Steinem

#26. Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

Bell Hooks

#27. It is the first step to lifelong enlightenment.

Robin S. Sharma

#28. Knowledge is curiosity to know more.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. How seriously have you personally taken the Lord's charge to share His gospel? It is a lifelong responsibility ... to be addressed differently according to the various seasons of your life.

Richard G. Scott

#30. Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

Cyndi Lauper

#32. You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

James Joyce

#33. My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

Kathryn Lasky

#34. We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

Price Pritchett

#35. If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Penelope Lively

#36. There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

Mark Strand

#37. The person who would become a lifelong reader should stumble upon very rich stuff first, early, and often. It lived within, a most agreeable kind of haunting.

Gregory Maguire

#38. Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears

Eleanor Brownn

#39. All women are lifelong members of the Secret Service...So, if you must lie, better make sure you cover your tracks because there is no such thing as a 'dumb blonde'...

Virginia Alison

#40. But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

Sean Connery

#41. It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#42. For there are many twists and turns on any given path. How or where it ends is either destination or mystery.

C.C. Wyatt

#43. I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

Thomas Carlyle

#44. In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Edward Abbey

#45. As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

Greg Walden

#46. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

Katharine Graham

#47. As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

Steven Seagal

#48. I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Tim Blake Nelson

#49. I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#50. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

Harville Hendrix

#51. A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

Cathy Crimmins

#52. You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#53. The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.

Simon S. Tam

#54. The college was run by a man called Mr. Carver whose lifelong passions were Esperanto and Pitman's shorthand, the latter more useful than the former.

Kate Atkinson

#55. I wish to keep reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. Christians throughout history have affirmed that lifelong celibacy is a spiritual gift and calling, not a path that should be forced upon someone.

Matthew Vines

#57. The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime.

Christopher Fowler

#58. People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Aristotle.

#59. The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

Alfie Kohn

#60. Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it's not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. (127)

Jenni Schaefer

#61. In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. It's not enough to survive, a lifelong love is all about thriving in a ministry-minded marriage that impacts others.

Gary Thomas

#63. My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.

Jackie Kay

#64. The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

Hal Clement

#65. Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

Maggie Young

#66. The world of books is a heavenly paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. socially connected will be a lifelong need, like food and warmth.

Matthew D. Lieberman

#68. The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

J.I. Packer

#69. Books always attract my attention.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#70. In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

Julia Glass

#71. You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.

Fran Sorin

#72. When it comes to books ... They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

Vendela Vida

#73. I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Jessica Savitch

#74. We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter F. Drucker

#75. Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

Hope Solo

#76. That meant we needed to play to our strengths, and our strengths came from lifelong training in shoving microphones at danger and demanding that it explain itself. It wasn't much. It was going to have to be enough.

Mira Grant

#77. I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Jan Karon

#78. Shijun, we can't go back.

Eileen Chang

#79. When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

George Carlin

#80. I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

Adrian Grenier

#81. It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

Ilona Andrews

#82. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. My lifelong love affair with science

Carl Sagan

#83. She couldn't concentrate enough to lose herself in a book - her lifelong method of escape.

Tami Hoag

#84. When I got discharged from the Army, I made a vow never to go back on an Army post. No big deal, just a simple lifelong vow.

William Goldman

#85. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#86. These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.

Anais Nin

#87. Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!

James C. Dobson

#88. Reading leads to wise ways of living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

Robert Breault

#90. I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times.

Frank Wolf

#91. I am determined to be a lifelong learner.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#92. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#93. Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

Alanis Morissette

#94. Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent

Susan Scott

#95. The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#96. I am learning to appreciate the gift of the moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#97. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

#98. It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

Paul McCartney

#99. Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

David Simon

#100. We live to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita