Live Quotes

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

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

Thomas Browne

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

Jean Ingelow

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Danish prove

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

English Prove

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

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

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

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Resolve to live as with all your might while you do live, and as you shall wish you had done ten thousand years hence.

Johathan Edwards

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

John W. N. Sullivan

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

Anonymous, Graffito

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

Adam Marshall

Life is short; live it up.

Khrushchev

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkein

Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Mathew Allen

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you.

Alan Alexander Milne

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

James Joyce

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Mark A. Clement

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell