Live Quotes

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)

When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie".

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Roscoe Snowden

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

Albert Einstein

One must desire something to be alive.

Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002

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

Unknown

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.

General John Stark

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.

Edward C. Moroney, Jr.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Zora Neale Hurston

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Kahlil Gibran

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Tim Robbins

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

Alan Alda

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

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

Annie Dillard

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne