Live Quotes

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.

General Douglas MacArthu

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Manilius

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.

General John Stark

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert, Dune

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

Mae West

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

George Gordon Byron

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

James X. Mullen

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin