Live Quotes

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer, The Iliad

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean - Paul Sartre

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Zora Neale Hurston

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.

Edward C. Moroney, Jr.

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.

Ernest Holmen

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Albert Einstein

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

Live fast, die young, and leave a good - Looking corpse.

James Cagney

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

Fitzgerald

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

Swahili Prove

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.

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.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

Unknown

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

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

Joe E. Lewis

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Bartholomew

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet