Live Quotes

John wooden - you cannot live a perfect day without doing...
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Prove
If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.
Jack London
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midle
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
James thurbe - nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation....
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.
Unknown
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
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Arab Prove
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.
President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God - Fearing free nat
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Mille
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplie
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fulle
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
Ashley Montagu
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilcrist
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.
Marcius Porcius Cato
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walke
Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
Henry Ward Beeche
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
Live like you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.
Unknown
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Harriet Martineau
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
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.
A. S. Neill
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.
Christopher Darlington Morley
Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.
Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day - To - Day basis.
Margaret Bonnano