Live Quotes
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.Boerhaave
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.Robert Green Ingersoll
To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Emerson
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
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
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.Mark Twain
Live simply that others may simply live.Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.Herman Melville
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
Make the most of your regrets.... To regret deeply is to live afresh.Henry David Thoreau
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.Homer, The Iliad
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.Mahatma Gandhi
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.Immanuel Hermann Fichte
We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow.Dr. B. J. Palme
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.Edwin Markham
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.James Truslow Adams
Life must be lived as play.Plato
Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.Charles Hanson Towne
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.Robert Louis Stevenson
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.Ovid
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.Edwin Holt Hughes
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
We can spend our whole lives underachieving.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
