If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Living long enough increases the likelihood of experiencing positive events.
- In plain terms
- If you live long, good things tend to happen.
- What can you take from it?
- Patience often pays off with time.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What good thing came from waiting?
- How do you stay hopeful in hard times?
Another view
Some people do not live long enough to see good things.
More from George Halas
I have made it a team rule that my players behave as gentlemen and dress as gentlemen. I wanted to end the popular conception that professional athletes were a…
Permalink to quote #1 Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set.
Permalink to quote #3 Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
Permalink to quote #4
Related quotes
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy quote #24 The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli quote #180 'Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.'
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer quote #1