Arthur T. Hadley Quotes

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

My work gave me everything and allowed me to live out my passion.

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with personal identity, personal goals, and making the most of my life.

Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home.

I'm going to do anything in my power to keep creating the path that I want to go down and I want to be a part of and be involved with, and whether or not that means superstardom or making music for the rest of my life and not having to work at a coffee shop, I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm stoked for whatever opportunity arises.

In the end, the important thing is that you decide where you will be happy and where you can do well, to show that as well as being footballers, we are people.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

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.

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.