Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

I want to be able to enjoy my life to the fullest so I can add something to the lives of people around me.

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car.

I'm not maximized yet.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.