Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

I believe that life is about doing.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Merely to exist is not enough.

Life isn't life if you just float through it.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

My trade and art is to live.

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

Our business is with life, not death.

Life is all about the spirit.

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive