Any Quote by George Bentham

Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did…

— John James Audubon

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life,…

— Benjamin Franklin

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of…

— Simon Raven

“Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence. Without…

— Charles Dickens

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

— Goldie Hawn

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

— Keira Knightley

I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the…

— Hermann Hesse

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

— Kevin Mitnick

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and…

— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all…

— Tony Robbins

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

— Isaac of Nineveh