Live Quotes

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

Emiliano Zapata

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

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

Publilius Syrus

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Brown

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

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

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

Flora Whittemore

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Henry Mille

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Hermann Broch

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

James Joyce

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

George Washington

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Mary Ann Brussat

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Margaret Milla

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05