Maxim Gorky Quotes

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

It is just living life intentionally - that is what I want instead of just existing.

We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there's a lot we can do, and there's a lot we should do.

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

Life should be great rather than long.

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

I want to be all used up when I die.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

Being able to score touchdowns and win games is a way to get a platform. But, ultimately, if that's what you do in your life, and that's what your life is based on, I don't know - I feel like that's a little bit of a meaningless life.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.