Live Quotes

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Henry C. Blinn

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walke

The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods.

Paul Claudel

We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Edward Kennedy

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

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

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

All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Mark Twain

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

Baltasar Gracian

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca

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

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Unknown

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild ai.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Joan Borysenko

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm S. Forbes

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)

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

Mae West

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras