Live Quotes

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Mille

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

You only live once but if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.

Unknown

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.

Fairfield Osborne

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

I intend to live forever or die trying.

Joseph Heller, Catch - 22

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.

Thomas Peters

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Russell M. Nelson

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert, Dune

A light heart lives long.

Irish Prove

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.

George Gordon Byron

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal