Eric Greitens Quotes

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Just breathing isn't living!

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

A life well used procures a happy death.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day. Of course, the price tag is definitely part of it, but it's not the whole thing in my book.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.