Live Quotes
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
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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.
Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.Seneca
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.Charles Dickens
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Horace
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.Norman Douglas
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
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
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 secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace, Odes
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.John Dryden
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.Archibald MacLeish
A light heart lives long.Irish Prove
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.Wayne W Dye
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.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.Eric Hoffe
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.Arab Prove
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.Mark A. Clement
We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.Alfred E. Neuman, The Half - Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.Elizabeth Bowen
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.Unknown
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
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)
