Live Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Being a hero is about the shortest - Lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.

Unknown

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Margaret Mille

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

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

God, I dont 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 Preache

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Live free or die.

New Hampshire State Motto

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)

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

Emiliano Zapata

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

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Ronald David Laing

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

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".

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson