Live Quotes

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

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

Samuel Butle

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

Live to live and you will learn to live.

Portuguese Prove

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

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

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cance

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

I still live.

Daniel Webster, last words, 24 October 1852.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day - To - Day basis.

Margaret Bonnano

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

John Adams

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Henry Truman

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

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

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Francis Bacon

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

George Washington

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

Joe E. Lewis

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg