Lasting Quotes

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

I think if we're looking at lasting peace in the Middle East, the United States has got to respect the needs of the Palestinian people. They cannot be pushed aside.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.