Live Quotes

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

Anatole France

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

Latin Prove

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Georges Jacques Danton

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose, Taylo

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Voltaire

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

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

H. L. Mencken

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Socrates

We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Euell Gibbons

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

Earl Warren

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

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

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

We live as we dream - Alone.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Laurens Van der Post

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

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.

Brigham Young

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

One must desire something to be alive.

Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002

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

Harrison Ford