livngood’s most recent Quotables

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

You are not responsible for anyone’s happiness but your own.

Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... Wow! What a ride!

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterwards.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.

The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, and work like a dog.

Success is a journey, not a destination. So stop running.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are made of dirt.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Women are like tea bags, they don't know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.