Live Quotes

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

Unknown

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

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Sanskrit Prove

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Yiddish Prove

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

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

I have lived some thirty - Odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Bartholomew

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1

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

Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie".

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.

George Eliot

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

Unknown

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Robert F. Bennett

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

Alfred E. Neuman, The Half - Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Macneile Dixon

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Emerson

I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.

Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

California is a fine place to live - - If you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan