Phillips Brooks Quotes

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.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

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.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I want to do really good things with my life.

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

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.

One of the biggest things I think we all can do is just try to live the best lives we can, and seek the best.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.