Live Quotes

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

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

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

Eric Hoffe

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

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

Soren Kierkegaard

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Make the most of your regrets.... To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives.

Hugh Elliott

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot, Romola

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting

Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.

Ken Lancaste

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Ashley Smith

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

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

Mark Twain

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond