Live Quotes

Underpromise overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

Anderson H. Scruggs

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jeremy Schwartz

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Publilius Syrus

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Marguerite Duras

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

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Laurens Van der Post

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

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

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

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

George Mikes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

Shahrukh Khan, a famous actor in india

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Henry David Thoreau

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils