135 Lifelong Quotes

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Famous Lifelong Quotes

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. — Nathaniel Branden

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world. — Caroline Pratt

All life long, the same questions, the same answers. — Samuel Beckett

Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence. — Isaac Mashman

There is no quick fix when it comes to health, it’s a lifelong journey. — Eric Berg

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development. — Elliot W. Eisner

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me. — Susan Polis Schutz

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. — Henry Latham Doherty

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. — Henry L. Doherty

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. — Plato

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — Henry Ford

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. — Abraham Maslow

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! — Paula White

Learning one new idea won't make you a genius, but a commitment to lifelong learning can be transformative. — James Clear

Short Lifelong Quotes

  • The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
  • Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage. — Chester Bennington
  • I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy. — Isaac Newton
  • Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. — Margaret Bourke-White
  • All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher. — George Whitman
  • You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. — Chris Fabry
  • The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. — Glenn Gould
  • As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black. — Greg Walden
  • It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. — Robert W. Service
  • A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure. — Lilian Jackson Braun
Lifelong quote Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Learning Is Lifelong Quotes

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity. — Henry Ford

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot. — Guy Claxton

The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for. — Paul Monette

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. — Peter Drucker

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. — M Scott Peck

Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY. — Shiv Khera

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. — Henry Ford

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. — Moshe Arens

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. — M. Scott Peck

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. — Brian Tracy

Friendship Lifelong Quotes

Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. — Sarah Orne Jewett

I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it. — Amy Grant

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. — Reinhold Niebuhr

In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. — Sarah Vowell

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. — Sarah Orne Jewett

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly. — Allen Lacy

Lifelong Friend Quotes

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. — Steven Van Zandt

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. — Michelle Obama

After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend — Page Smith

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own. — Douglas William Jerrold

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch. — Garrison Keillor

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble — Debra Messing

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. — Tony Vlachos

I went to elementary school in Goodeve, Saskatchewan, a small Ukrainian town. I played a lot of hockey, a lot of ball. Because of that I fit in - everyone wanted me on their team. The guys knew I was a hunter, and they were farmers. They just accepted that. I have lifelong friends from Goodeve. — Perry Bellegarde

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox. — Barbara Holland

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine. — Deepak Chopra

Lifelong Learning Quotes

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. — Confucius

Collecting a teacher’s knowledge may help us solve the challenges of the day but understanding how a teacher thinks can help us navigate the challenges of a lifetime. — Adam Grant

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. — Brian Tracy

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America. — Barbara Bush

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. — William Haley

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. — Yo-Yo Ma

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning. — Don Tapscott

It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn. — Samantha Stosur

People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy. — George Gilder

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning. — Peter Senge

Lifelong Love Quotes

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation? — Cesare Pavese

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love. — Eric Jerome Dickey

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation. — Sean Connery

To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness. — C. S. Lewis

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. — Alan Cohen

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. — Alan Cohen

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love. — Caitlin Thomas

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. — Bell Hooks

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work. — Sebastian Roche

Lifelong Journey Quotes

Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union. — Harville Hendrix

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey. — Brad Feld

Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is. — Chris Sharma

All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land. — Janet Frame

Everybody is on a lifelong journey toward trying to live more deeply. There is nobody who can say, "Well, I've got that one checked off my to-do list." We have to be honest with ourselves about where we are on this journey and about the difficulty of living in our own identities and integrity. — Parker J. Palmer

Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world. — Neil L. Andersen

I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey. — Kelly Slater

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel. — Jim Stovall

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land. — Janet Frame

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion. — Ben Bernanke

Lifelong Friends Quotes

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney. — Richard Branson

I've always loved playing live shows. I love traveling, seeing the country. I've made a lot of lifelong friends on the road at shows. It's so neat to see that so many of our fans have become friends. There are these nice little groups of "X People" everywhere. — Exene Cervenka

I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity. — Jade Hassoune

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better. — Stephen Leacock

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people. — Larry King

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends. — Jessica Mitford

When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis. — Vendela Vida

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More Lifelong Quotes

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. — Carol S. Dweck

Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still. — Barack Obama

John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose. — Michael Palin

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. — Glenn Gould

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. — Ken Robinson

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. — Sergei Prokofiev

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too. — James Joyce

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others. — Bob Hawke

I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream. — Vera Wang

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. — Rick Bayan

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to"). — Gore Vidal

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. — Charlie Crist

The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27). — John Owen

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a lifelong quest of the wise. — Shannon Alder

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger. — Steven Seagal

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last. — Robert W. Service

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