Lifetime Quotes

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

Relationships are forever. They are eternal. Not just permanent in this lifetime. Once you establish a relationship, it is an eternal relationship.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.

Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.

Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'