If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: feeling success good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Anna Quindlen Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
More quotations from Anna Quindlen When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “good” Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. —Baltasar Gracián More about this quote Tags: life friendship evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email He who stops being better stops being good. —Oliver Cromwell More about this quote Tags: good aspiration better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: religion evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you. —Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever More about this quote Tags: evil bad good dichotomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is good that fire should burn, even if it consumes your house; it is good that force should crush, even if it crushes you; it is good that rain should fall, even if it destroys your crops and floods your land. Plagues and pestilences attest to the constancy of natural law. They set us to cleaning our streets and houses and to readjusting our relations to outward nature. Only in a live universe could disease and death prevail. Death is a phase of life, a redistributing of the type. Decay is another kind of growth. —John Burroughs More about this quote Tags: bad good death all one sickness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. —Baltasar Gracián More about this quote Tags: life friendship evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who stops being better stops being good. —Oliver Cromwell More about this quote Tags: good aspiration better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: religion evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you. —Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever More about this quote Tags: evil bad good dichotomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is good that fire should burn, even if it consumes your house; it is good that force should crush, even if it crushes you; it is good that rain should fall, even if it destroys your crops and floods your land. Plagues and pestilences attest to the constancy of natural law. They set us to cleaning our streets and houses and to readjusting our relations to outward nature. Only in a live universe could disease and death prevail. Death is a phase of life, a redistributing of the type. Decay is another kind of growth. —John Burroughs More about this quote Tags: bad good death all one sickness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email