Live Quotes

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Live constructively and live optimistically"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"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 Hoffer, Writer

"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it"

William Penn, Leader

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves"

Ed Smith

"So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops"

Ed Smith

"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire"

Thomas Merton, Author

"It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows"

Neil Tennant, Musician

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

Richard Bach, Novelist

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

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

"If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot"

Patti Smith, Musician

"My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body"

Marcel Proust, Author

"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in"

Julie Christie, Actress

"If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

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