David Niven famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.
-- David Niven

#Character #Space #Decision
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
-- David Niven

#Contentment #Too Much #Tvs
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
-- David Niven

#Work Out #Circus #Never Quit
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- David Niven

#Running #Life And Love #Long
I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.
-- David Niven

#Purpose #World #Purpose Of Life
Isnâ€™t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?
-- David Niven

#Men #Thinking #Laughing
If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.
-- David Niven

#Happiness #People #Cost
I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.
-- David Niven

#Girl #Men #Wonder
Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.
-- David Niven

#Alcohol #Companionship #Champagne
I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.
-- David Niven

#Taken #Fields #Superstitions
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.
-- David Niven

#School #Writing #Years
True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.
-- David Niven

#Leadership #Teaching #Empowering
This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.
-- David Niven

#Army #Thinking #Numbers
You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
-- David Niven
Malta is a sod of a place.
-- David Niven

#Malta #Sod
Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence of what you can do, and you will not doubt your abilities to do anything.
-- David Niven

#Giving #Doubt #Care
Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
-- David Niven

#Making Love #Hammocks #Duration
Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have.
-- David Niven

#Meaningful #Grateful #Roots
Dreams don't have an expiration date.
-- David Niven

#Inspirational #Dream
Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.
-- David Niven

#Choices #Misunderstood #Jokes
Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.
-- David Niven

#Winning #People #Competition
Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.
-- David Niven

#Frustrated #Age #World
But Champagne is not drinking.
-- David Niven

#Drinking #Champagne
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
-- David Niven

#Mistake #Funny Marriage #Tomorrow
I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.
-- David Niven

#Truth #Reality #Men
Actors donâ€™t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.
-- David Niven

#Roles #Actors #Retiring
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
-- David Niven

#War #Humanity #Done
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
-- David Niven

#Clothes #Two #Faces
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
-- David Niven

#Age #One Day #Want

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