Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
As quoted in Walt Disney, Magician of the Movies (1966) by Bob Thomas p. 116
“May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.”
Cathy Collison (November 16, 1983) "Savitch Remembered Crim In Will", Detroit Free Press, p. 14D.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 17.
“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
As quoted in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (1896) by Ida Tarbell
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Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967
Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
As quoted in Walt Disney, Magician of the Movies (1966) by Bob Thomas p. 116
Context: A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
Hugh Blair (1718–1800) British philosopher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 345.
“Undoubtedly, as it seems to me at least, satiety of all pursuits causes satiety of life. Boyhood has certain pursuits: does youth yearn for them? Early youth has its pursuits: does the matured or so-called middle stage of life need them? Maturity, too, has such as are not even sought in old age, and finally, there are those suitable to old age. Therefore as the pleasures and pursuits of the earlier periods of life fall away, so also do those of old age; and when that happens man has his fill of life and the time is ripe for him to go.”
Omnino, ut mihi quidem videtur studiorum omnium satietas vitae facit satietatem. Sunt pueritiae studia certa: num igitur ea desiderant adulescentes? Sunt ineuntis adulescentiae: num ea constans iam requirit aetas, quae media dicitur? Sunt etiam eius aetatis: ne ea quidem quaeruntur in senectute. Sunt extrema quaedam studia senectutis: ergo, ut superiorum aetatum studia occidunt, sic occidunt etiam senectutis; quod cum evenit, satietas vitae tempus maturum mortis affert.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
section 76 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0039%3Asection%3D76 <br class="br">Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (44 BC)
“Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Savonarola (1881), Girolamo Savonarola in Act I, sc. iv; p. 49.
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 513
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation