I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
— Zinedine Zidane
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
— Ziggy Marley
I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
— Zig Ziglar
There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
In the village where I grew up, a lot of girls didn't have a choice of whether to go to middle school. They would get engaged or married and spend their entire life in that village.
— Zhou Qunfei
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
— Zhang Yimou
Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.
— Zephyr Teachout
Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
There's more to life than physical and material.
Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
— Zhuangzi
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
— Zhang Ziyi
It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
— Zhang Xin
It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.
Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.
— Zendaya
My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.
— Zhou Xun
Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
— Zhang Zhidong
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women’s careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of this office be maximized to stop corruption at the national level.
