Live Quotes
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.J. Michael Straczynski
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.Kahlil Gibran
To regret deeply is to live afresh.Henry David Thoreau
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.Plato, The Republic
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.David P Gardne
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 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
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.Conte Vittorio Alfieri
A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.John Locke
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Live dangerously and you live right.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.Douglas Adams
Heroing is one of the shortest - Lived professions there is.Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.Andre Gide
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.Ashley Smith
All would live long, but none would be old.Benjamin Franklin
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
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
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.Fitzgerald
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.Socrates
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.David H. Lawrence
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Albert Camus
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.William James
