Live Quotes

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

General Douglas MacArthu

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

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

Alexis Carrel

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

John F. Kennedy

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Hermann Broch

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Robert Orben

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

To reget deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Jean Ingelow

Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me.

Jerry Maguire

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

Alan Alda

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

Albert Einstein

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

Flora Whittemore

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

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

Loren Klein

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

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.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain