November 2010


Motivational Quotes19 Nov 2010 11:57 am

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
~Marcus Aurelius

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.
~William James

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
~Virginia Woolf

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
~Alexis

Life itself is the proper binge.
~Julia Child

Life has got to be lived — that’s all there is to it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a comedy for those who think… and a tragedy for those who feel.
~Horace

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
~William Shakespeare

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~Martin Luther King

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
~William Goldman

Life is just one damned thing after another.
~ Elbert Hubbard

A good life is a main argument.
~ Ben Jonson

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
~George Herbert

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
~Jules Renard

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~Oscar Wilde

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
~Dalai Lama

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
~Thomas Carlyle

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Winston Churchill

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is nothing without friendship.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
~Michael Wickett

The world’s a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span.”
~Sir Francis Bacon

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
~Albert Einstein

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
~Hypocrites

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~William Shakespeare

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
~Elbert Hubbard

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
~Buddha

General Topics14 Nov 2010 05:28 pm

These are the glowing embers’ collection Equality Quotes that are inspiring.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income , and the really great in favour of equality.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of responsibility.
~John F Kennedy

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
~Aristotle

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
~ Heinrich Heine

In the state of nature…all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
~ Charles de Montesquieu

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~Kahlil Gibran

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
~Irving Kristol

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire

Democracy arose from men thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal in all respects
~ Aristotle

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
~Aristotle

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~ Kahlil Gibran

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
~ Voltaire

All the people like us are We,
And everyone else is They.
~Rudyard Kipling

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
~Arthur Ashe

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
~ Simone Weil

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
~ Andrew Jackson

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
~Mao Tse-Tung

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
~Aldous Huxley

Men are born equal but they are also born different.
~Erich Fromm

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
~ Samuel Johnson

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
~Anna Chennault

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
~ Bob Dylan

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
~Frances Wright

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
~Lord Acton

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
~Henry Becque