Lasting Quotes

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.

To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

Hate is more lasting than dislike.

People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Lasting happiness starts with one question...what can I celebrate?

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.