Luxury Quotes - Page 6

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass.

Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.