On My Way Quotes

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

...blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [...to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they always can be!]

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

There is no special way a photograph should look.

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change your mind.

Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She leaned way back just to straighten up her hose Well the ice cream melted and the coffee froze.

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you’re never disappointed.

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

Italy is not widely thought of as a pioneer of youth culture in the way, say, the UK is.

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.