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Quotes about Living


Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia; Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]

Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Saint Bernard of Bible

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

William Wordsworth

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Julian Clary

But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard, In your rambles in valleys and forests, Repeating your ultimate word.

J.G. Saxe

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".

Joseph Addison

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

David P. Gardner

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Charles Aristotle

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

Wendell Phillips

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Ralph Waldo Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.

Hazrat Aristotle

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

Booker T Washington

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Malcolm S. Forbes

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

William Faulkner

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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