Live Quotes

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.

Mark Twain

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

George Bernard Shaw

It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.

Tibetan Prove

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

La Fontaine

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Clay P. Bedford

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

Hindoo Maxim

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.

Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato, The Republic

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Aristotle

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Home

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.

Muhammad Ali

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes