Live Quotes

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Anonymous

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltze

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Mark A. Clement

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.

Ernest Holmen

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

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

Albert Einstein

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Richard Bach

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

One must desire something to be alive.

Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

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

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer, The Iliad

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

Shahrukh Khan, a famous actor in india

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.

Eric Hoffe