Live Quotes

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

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

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Ernst Steinbeck

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Gerald R. Ford

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - Especially their lives.

Eugene V. Debs

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

A. Bronson Alcott

You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.

Edward C. Moroney, Jr.

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3

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

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca

I intend to live forever or die trying.

Joseph Heller, Catch - 22

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

Edmund Burke

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

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

Jean Ingelow

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

We live as we dream - Alone.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

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

John Adams

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Sophocles

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare