Live Quotes

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Ernest Hemingway

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

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

Woodrow Wilson

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

Underpromise overdeliver.

Tom Peters

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

How nice - - To feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Albert Einstein

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jeremy Schwartz

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.

Crow, The

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.

Irv Kupcinet

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson