Live Quotes

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

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

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

Brian

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Martin Barzun

May you always live in interesting times.

Chinese Curse

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

A man who won? t die for something is not fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

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

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Lady Duff - Gordon

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butle

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Plato

Live like you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

Unknown

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasgow

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Johann von Goethe

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

In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Marguerite Duras