Longevity Quotes

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Important, Quality

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu

Money, Long, Lives

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes

Life, Work, Good

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Aaliyah

Important, Give, Chance

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns

Stress, Important, Single

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
Bob Newhart

Marriage, Proud, Kids

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
Christy Turlington

Life, Nature, Power

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.
Daniel Radcliffe

Career, After, Child

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
Alexander McQueen

Fashion, Problem, Big

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.
Amanda Seyfried

Road, Clearly, Helps

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.
Tony Campolo

Life, Time, America

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.
Jessica Simpson

Important, Someone, Career

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne

Life, Morning, Mean

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
Jennifer Lopez

Business, Real, Able

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
Lenny Kravitz

Career, Why, Reason

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber

Beautiful, Living, Next

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
Orlando Bloom

Trying, Next, Minute

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
Alice Cooper

Time, Business, School

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
Mario Batali

Happen, Eyes, Off

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
Cat Cora

Education, Age, Good

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
Rick Springfield

Rock, Stars, Depth

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.
Beth Ditto

Music, Hope, Mean

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Garson Kanin

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
Martina McBride

Place, Difference, Industry

Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote

Time, Scandal, Conquers

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
Jewel

Business, Famous, Long

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
Leon Kass

Good, Bad, Past

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
Bob Newhart

Great, Thought, Last

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.
Diana Ross

Career, Appreciate

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Selma Blair

Won, Pressure, Lead

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