Live Quotes

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is better to live richly than to die rich.

Author Unknown

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Mary Ann Brussat

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Helle

Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bette Midle

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

Brian

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Stewart Paton

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

George Gordon Byron

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

James Joyce

Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.

Unknown

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - In order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

Everything has been figured out except how to live.

Jean - Paul Sartre

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

William Stekel

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Anon.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie".

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Richard Bach

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

Sir Winston Churchill

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski