Quotes About Longevity

#1. The ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

Erma Bombeck

#2. The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

J.G. Holland

#3. I don't like to put outrageous titles on young guys' heads, but he could be one of the best at that position. All it's going to take are longevity and health. If he has those two things by his side, he'll be one of the best.

Nate Burleson

#4. If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.

Terry Wogan

#5. I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Aaliyah

#6. When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

Bob Newhart

#7. MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

#8. One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

Carolyn Hart

#9. 84. In life, you are measured not by longevity but by contribution and impact

Dr Lloyd Magangeni

#10. I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have. I'm trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition and do different things at different points in my life, then that's fine.

Katee Sackhoff

#11. I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

Maria Menounos

#12. Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.

Oleta Adams

#13. Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Cyril Connolly

#14. To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

Rob Lowe

#15. My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

Alonzo Mourning

#16. Gratitude is the bridge that merges your love with longevity. It is the vital ingredient for a lasting relationship.

Steve Maraboli

#17. Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Mary Baker Eddy

#18. Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

#19. I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

Don McLean

#20. I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

Craig Venter

#21. I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

Ted Ligety

#22. Longevity can't be the only test of love.

Bette Greene

#23. My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Alice Cooper

#24. Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

Selma Blair

#25. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#26. The power of positive thinking is vital for maintaining happiness, good
health and longevity.

Eraldo Banovac

#27. I brought the cup to my lips with greed
Begging for longevity, my temporal need
Cup brought its to mine, its secret did feed
Time never returns, drink, of this take heed

Omar Khayyam

#28. While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#29. My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

James Garner

#30. If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

George Burns

#31. I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

Ruth Negga

#32. Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

Ram Dass

#33. If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

Clint Eastwood

#34. If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#35. I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

Diana Ross

#36. Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

Jill Scott

#37. I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

Joan Blondell

#38. Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Christy Turlington

#39. Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends ... if you [have] five, you're a rich man ... .

Thomas J. Stanley

#40. I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.

Kirsten Nelson

#41. The breadth and depth of what dogs do for our happiness and longevity is pretty remarkable.

Marty Becker

#42. Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

Satya Nadella

#43. Popeye the Sailor Man has more cultural longevity. Only women and poofs read or write now. Otherwise, these days, no sooner has someone been sodomised by a close relative than they think they can write a memoir. The game's up.

Hanif Kureishi

#44. The will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.

Tom Robbins

#45. Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Helen Hayes

#46. She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die.

Steve Toltz

#47. Words have a longevity I do not.

Paul Kalanithi

#48. Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.

Katie Hafner

#49. The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

Dan Buettner

#50. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.

Bill Maher

#51. Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

Kathleen Hanna

#52. Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Jewel

#53. Research is showing that we can change our attitude, and thereby our relationship to our circumstances, in ways that can make a difference in our health and well-being, and possibly to our longevity.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#54. And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

Edwin Starr

#55. I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#56. If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

Daniel Radcliffe

#57. Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.

Robert D. Putnam

#58. I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

Patti Smith

#59. There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

Danny Bonaduce

#60. Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

Tony Bennett

#61. In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

Robert Fogel

#62. We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.

Lewis Thomas

#63. I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

Cat Cora

#64. I stood balanced on the brink of madness. Insanity and longevity are a truly terrifying combination; if I gave in now, I might pay the price for centuries to come.

C.S. Friedman

#65. I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

Penelope Ann Miller

#66. For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Marilyn Manson

#67. As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that sort [for the 'King Of The South' title] would be Lil Wayne - as far as success from a numbers standpoint. As far as longevity and success, that's the only person I feel like can say that.

T.I.

#68. I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.

Rajon Rondo

#69. The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

Tom Rath

#70. Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality ... perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging ... eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh ... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility.

Linda Goodman

#71. How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.

Sharon Salzberg

#72. Good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me
and, with these things to make a life.

Richard Ford

#73. Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

Tom Frieden

#74. Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

Richard Thaler

#75. For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

John Cho

#76. One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.

Frederick Lenz

#77. THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

Mel Brooks

#78. My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

Lenny Kravitz

#79. If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

Alberto Juantorena

#80. If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you'll use it more.

Nina Garcia

#81. longevity bestowed respect, even upon a whorehouse madam if she kept going for long enough.

Jo Nesbo

#82. In a time where everything's a flavor of the month, and it's hard to have any sort of longevity, I've been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks.

Aesop Rock

#83. The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort
"happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

Oswald Spengler

#84. Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that.

Jaime Zevallos

#85. You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

Don King

#86. The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

#87. Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

John Gabriel Stedman

#88. For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

S.R. Ford

#89. Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

Laozi

#90. Fat cells have memories. They want to go back to their old size. But new muscles have memories too and, once you have created muscles, they work hard to hold your new shape.
You are always on a diet. The only question is, a diet for what? Health or obesity? Longevity or illness?

Celso Cukierkorn

#91. Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Suzanne Yoculan

#92. The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

Sheldon Adelson

#93. Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.

Carl Froch

#94. The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they're on.

Erin Gray

#95. This is not about the mere extension of life along a horizontal plane, but about the deepening of life along a vertical plane. Mere longevity cannot render life meaningful any more than brevity has the power to make it meaningless.

Peter Rollins

#96. I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

Bob Newhart

#97. I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

Blair Underwood

#98. Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

Alison Larkin

#99. Stagnancy will suffocate a business ... Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity.

Steve Maraboli

#100. If you want to experience dramatic growth within your organization, you must truly understand the relationship between profit, growth, longevity, customer relationships, employee empowerment, and customer service.

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