Aldous Huxley Quotes

We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.

You don't want to get complacent and just accept things - just because we've had those moments and we have come so far, you don't want to ever take that for granted, because the moment you do, it can all go away.

Success is easy to take for granted.

I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

It is not customary to love what one has.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

Honestly, it's very satisfying, and I'm very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been... It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying now.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

I'm thankful for the position that I'm in, I'm thankful to go to the ceremony [of Grammys] the first time, thankful for everything. I'm just taking it step by step.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

I don't like looking at awards everyday because I feel like they can make you lazy. So, I give them to my Mom and let her look at it everyday. They are symbols of the hard work she put into me. Her sacrifices allowed me and my team to win those awards. But I don't look at any awards everyday.

I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.