We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles.
We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct. . . make any better. It's frightening".
There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals. " Management affects people and their lives.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
