Live By Quotes (125) Spiritual Sayings


Summary: Definition of Live By. Live by something to behave according to a particular set of beliefs or principles.


"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
~ Albert Einstein


"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
~ Orson Welles


"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
~ Albert Einstein


"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
~ Albert Camus


"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
~ Max Muller


"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."
~ Swami Vivekananda


"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."
~ Joel Osteen


"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
~ Swami Vivekananda


"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."
~ Denis Waitley


"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
~ Abraham Lincoln


"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~ Albert Camus


"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."
~ Albert Einstein


"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
~ James Dean


"A lie cannot live."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ Mahatma Gandhi


"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."
~ James C. Dobson


"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."
~ Buddha


"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent."
~ Samuel Lover


"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
~ Albert Einstein


"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."
~ Zig Ziglar


"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche


"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche


"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."
~ Buddha


"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
~ Dalai Lama


"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
~ Lao Tzu


"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


"Life, Trust, Happy
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
~ Nelson Mandela


"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
~ Abraham Lincoln


"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
~ Jim Rohn


"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
~ Abraham Lincoln


"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use."
~ Mother Teresa


"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."
~ Ashley Smith


"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."
~ Abraham Lincoln


"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
~ Mark Twain


"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
~ Mark Twain


"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
~ Mark Twain


"I can live without money, but I cannot live without love."
~ Judy Garland


"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt


"We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily."
~ Dalai Lama


"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
~ Benjamin Franklin


"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."
~ Swami Vivekananda


"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
~ Mark Twain


"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."
~ Mark Twain


"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
~ Steven Wright


"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
~ Ray Bradbury


"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."
~ Wayne Dyer


"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
~ Socrates


"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
~ Mahatma Gandhi


"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body."
~ Mahatma Gandhi


"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
~ Jean-Paul Sartre


"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."
~ Jonathan Edwards


"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
~ Leonardo da Vinci


"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."
~ Mahatma Gandhi


"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
~ Joseph Campbell


"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
~ Mahatma Gandhi


"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
~ Ayn Rand


"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt


"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt


"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
~ Mahatma Gandhi


"What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past."
~ Sai Baba


"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
~ Socrates


"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
~ Aristotle


"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
~ Paramahansa Yogananda


"Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
~ Benjamin Franklin


"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
~ Dale Carnegie


"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
~ Khalil Gibran


"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."
~ Albert Schweitzer


"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
~ Aristotle


"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
~ Wayne Dyer


"Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world."
~ Sai Baba


"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
~ Khalil Gibran


"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk."
~ Tony Robbins


"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
~ Marcus Aurelius


"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"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


"We make war that we may live in peace."
~ Aristotle


"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
~ Thomas Paine


"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
~ Aristotle


"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
~ Joseph Campbell


"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."
~ Wayne Dyer


"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche


"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain."
~ Tony Robbins


"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
~ Seneca


"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"
~ Henry David Thoreau


"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
~ Oprah Winfrey


"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"Live the life you've dreamed."
~ Henry David Thoreau


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


"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
~ Plato


"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."
~ Joan of Arc


"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
~ Marcus Aurelius


"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
~ Albert Camus


"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
~ Dale Carnegie


"Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory."
~ Sun Tzu


"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
~ Tony Robbins


"Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions."
~ Sai Baba


"Live with passion!"
~ Tony Robbins


"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
~ Stephen Covey


"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."
~ Wayne Dyer


"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly."
~ Oprah Winfrey


"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities."
~ Nelson Mandela


"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
~ Thomas Aquinas


"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
~ Denis Waitley


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