Live Quotes

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

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

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

Burk Hudson

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Yiddish Prove

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.

George Eliot

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

Edward Kennedy

If you suffer, thank God! - - It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Leoardo da Vinci

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

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)

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot, Romola

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Joan Borysenko

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fulle

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe.

Maurice Mascaranhas

Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe