Walker Percy Quotes

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

Maybe this is just horrible bad, but I think I've had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There's no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Life's not all about money.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.