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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

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.

Boerhaave

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

John Wilkins

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

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

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

Mary McCarthy

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleano

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert M. Hutchins

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

Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides, Temenidae

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkein

Make the most of your regrets.... To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Yiddish Prove

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Carl Sandburg

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Write a wise saying and your name will live foreve.

Anonymous

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

I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.

Georges Jacques Danton

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

Anderson H. Scruggs