Live Quotes

If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Robert Burns

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

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

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

Boerhaave

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

Elbert Hubbard

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774 - 1821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA, Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

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

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

Charles Hanson Towne

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

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

Edwin Holt Hughes

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

Theodore Epp

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

Fitzgerald

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh