Life Assessment Quotes

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I've not had a mean life.

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

My first book was published when I was thirty-two, so I think it was basically finished when I was thirty or thirty-one. And so then you think, "Well, what have you failed to do?" And my answer to myself was almost everything.

At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?'