Living Life Quotes

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

There are two ways of living: a man may be casual and simply exist, or constructively and deliberately try to do so. The constructive idea implies a constructiveness not only about one's own life, but about that of society, and the future possibilities of mankind.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves–or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

People don’t ever seem to realize that doing what’s right’s no guarantee against misfortune.

"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."