Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Old Tom Morris

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish architect Old Tom Morris.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Thomas Mitchell Morris, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of the St Andrews Links, and died there as well. Young Tom Morris, also a golfer, was his son.

Scottish - Architect | June 16, 1821 - May 24, 1908

Source: Wikipedia

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

Old Tom Morris

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

Old Tom Morris

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

Old Tom Morris