Henry Giroux Quotes

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Life is not about money.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

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

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

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

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

My ambition is to be the best I can be.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

Life's not all about money.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.