John Templeton Quotes

What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

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

Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

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.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I want to do really good things with my life.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.

I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.