Isaiah Thomas Quotes

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

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

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.

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I want to be all used up when I die.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

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.

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.

I want to do really good things with my life.