Live Quotes

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

James Joyce

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

Ernest Holmen

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

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

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay

The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

La Rochefoucauld

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Mark Duffy

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

Annie Dillard

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffle

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

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)

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Norman Douglas

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Ivan Pavlov

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Cristion Morgenstern

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Alexis Carrel

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

The Terminator Come with me if you want to live.

Terminator 2 Judgment Day

To live is well, but to live well is bette.

Russian prove

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty

Live like you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

Unknown

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

Ronald David Laing

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Helle