Lasting Quotes

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

The last love is the most lasting of loves

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

I think a lot of people read the album cover as something scary or creepy. I think it's something positive...something lasting.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.