Christopher Morley Quotes

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

I want to do really good things with my life.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

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

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

A good education is another name for happiness.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

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.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

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.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

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.