Live Quotes

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Lady Duff - Gordon

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Macneile Dixon

Live like you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

Unknown

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jeremy Schwartz

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay

We live, as we dream, alone.

Joseph Conrad

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.

Adam Marshall

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

George Orwell

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.

Author Unknown

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live simply that others might simply live.

Elizabeth Seaton

I 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

A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

California is a fine place to live - - If you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Anonymous, Graffito

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Author Unknown

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

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

Margaret Milla

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle