Best 65 quotes in «quality of life quotes» category

It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

It's a choice to occasionally let go of the urge to feel good in an instant in favor of the long-term goal of shaping our internal state and character which will eventually translate into a good quality of life.

Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.

It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollars. And other than the doctor (who made house calls), the store managers, the minister, the salesman, and the banker, everyone belonged to a union. That meant they worked a forty-hour week, had the entire weekend off (plus two to four weeks' paid vacation in the summer), comprehensive medical benefits, and job security. In return for all that, the country became the most productive in the world and in our little neighborhood it meant your furnace was always working, your kids could be dropped off at the neighbors without notice, you could run next door anytime to borrow a half-dozen eggs, and the doors to all the homes were never locked -- because who would need to steal anything if they already had all that they needed?

Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

It's not the number, but the quality of shares that creates wealth. Again, its never the number, but the quality of each day that creates a worthwhile life. Never seek a long life. Its just numbers. Rather, seek a worthwhile day !

It took me a while to realize--but thankfully realized before it was too late--that a fancy house, car, and cable television don't bring much happiness if you're dead. If you're at the weight that I was--or close to it--and you put your love of food and laziness ahead of the love of your family, you're being selfish. Nothing else you've ever done will matter if your family is left alone with that fancy house, car, and cable television when you're gone. It's one thing to leave this world unexpectedly in some tragic accident, but it's stupid and selfish when you're packing your bags every time you sit at the dinner table.

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers whose vision and innovation improve the quality of our lives. And that's what it means to matter more. It's not about pursuit of riches or fame. It's about making a difference in people's lives. Remembered or not, lived out in a small town or on the world stage, the journey of relevance matters.

Peace, happiness, and love are a daily practice. Give time and energy to that which you want more of in your life. Invest in yourself for a higher quality of life. You're worth it.

Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites.

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. So they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. The results had been catastrophic so far - suicide, theft, murder, and insanity and so on. But new chemicals were coming onto the market all the time.

Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one’s memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another.

That person staring back at you when you look in the mirror... that's your competition.

The length of your life doesn't guarantee a better quality of life.

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors--how we exercise, what we eat--is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

The quality of our life is directly proportional to the quality of our thoughts.

The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others’ lives.

The quality of your life is given via the quality of the thinking you have done.

The quality of your life is in direct relationship to the quality of your habits and rituals.

The quality of your life is measured by the number of deep breaths you take. Make each breath count.

There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if ‘productivity’ and/or ‘usefulness’ are the measures of human value, and — particularly for artists — this is deeply problematic. We shouldn’t given in.

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

This is what you British do not understand about the French. You think you must work, work, work, work and open on Sundays and make mothers and fathers with families slave in supermarkets at three o'clock in the morning and make people leave their homes and their churches and their children and go shopping on Sundays.' 'Their shops are open on Sundays?' said Benoît in surprise. 'Yes! They make people work on Sundays! And through lunchtimes! But for what? For rubbish from China? For cheap clothes sewed by poor women in Malaysia? For why? So you can go more often to KFC and get full of fried chicken? You would rather have six bars of bad chocolate than one bar of good chocolate. Why? Why are six bad things better than one good thing? I don't understand.

Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.

We are very much at the mercy of circumstance, but it is how you choose to respond to circumstance that determines the quality of your life.

Quality of life depends on quality and quantity of happiness.

We can have more enjoyable days and even a higher quality of life with more success by taking small steps to shift our thoughts using practical, everyday strategies and insights from the rapidly expanding field of Positive Psychology.

We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, and grant their country most-favored-nation status (political contributions notwithstanding), we are deciding to make American workers who must earn the minimum wage compete with them. I am not suggesting that we close the doors to China or to Mexico, but I am suggesting that we look very carefully at the web of international relationships that we are creating. At the very minimum, we should understand that we have two choices in our country: we can raise world living standards by exporting those standards, or we can lower living standards- not only the world’s but also our own- by deciding that it is acceptable for the products of exploited labor to enter this country.

A high quality life starts with a high quality you!

You have a choice as to how you live your life. You have a choice as to how you feel about how you live your life. Make choices that serve you, that serve to both better your experience and the quality of your life.

When you stop working on things, you risk regressing backward. If you want things to improve you need to work at them. If you want them to continue to improve, you need to continue working on them.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

Quality questions create a quality life.

After you defined Quality, it was the turn of quantity. Now apply judicious quality control. Select what can be improved? Strive for achieving the perceived Quality as above. Practically, a virtuous circle to this Quality is followed through deploying Deming's PDSA

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

A degree of quality is in everything people do and experience.

...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.

All of us are part of a beautiful pageantry of human experience. Let us make the most of this life in all we do.

As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life.