Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

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?'

When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.

I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.