Live Quotes

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Anon.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.

Ken Keyes

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

Our lives improve only when we take chances - And the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Lady Duff - Gordon

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Charles Schaefe

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffle

How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - Is plenty.

Prove

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Mille

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

George Gordon Byron

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs