Live Quotes

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne

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

Unknown

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government".

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Alan B. Watts

If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Johann Von Schille

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

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

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

Theodore Epp

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.

Robert Fulghum

He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun.

Steady Eddy

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Maria Mitchell

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

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

Florence Nightingale

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty