Live Quotes

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
George Washington Carve
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Socrates - the shortest and surest way to live with honor in...
Bruce lee - not being tense but ready. not thinking but not...
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
Live to live and you will learn to live.
Portuguese Prove
When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical.
Pamela Ribon
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
Norman Douglas
Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.
Edward C. Moroney, Jr.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)
Traditional indian saying - when you were born, you cried and the world...
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
Donald Barthelme
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
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Publilius Syrus
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
John Wilkins
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Gloria Swanson
Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe.
Maurice Mascaranhas
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
Emiliano Zapata
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
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Seneca
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.
Roger Banniste
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitze