Live Quotes

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

A. Sachs

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

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

Emiliano Zapata

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Albert Einstein

You only live once but if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

Native American Praye

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

Edmund Burke

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

American Prove

After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

Swahili Prove

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

Emad Hasan

You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.

Unknown

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

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

Harrison Ford

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

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

Henry David Thoreau

Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

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

Prove

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.

Vince Lombardi

If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm...

Jim Zelenka

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.

Georges Jacques Danton

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe