Live Quotes

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.

Nikos Kazantzakis

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Traditional Indian Saying

Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me.

Jerry Maguire

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

Underpromise overdeliver.

Tom Peters

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Margaret Milla

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

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

Ronald Reagan

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Charles Schaefe

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffle

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

Swahili prove

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

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

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

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22