Top 100 Live For Quotes
#1. I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.
Lois Lowry
#2. I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.
Lou Gehrig
#4. If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I
can live for 3,000,000,000.
Jack Hyles
#5. I've never tried to drive my career in any particular direction. I've always been an in-the-moment, live-for-today guy. I've never had a goal, and nearly everything I've done has been an accident. I just play to me, and if I can amuse myself, I consider it a victory.
Doug Stanhope
#7. To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.
Pascal Mercier
#8. When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.
Rihanna
#10. When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.
Tommy Wallach
#11. The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.
Terence McKenna
#12. No one is self sufficient, No one has it all, No one knows it all, until you understand these facts and learn to live for others, you have not started living.
Bien Sufficient
#13. Vik? You ready? (Devyn)
Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#14. Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.
Jeremy Spencer
#15. In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.
Helen Hayes
#16. Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long ...
Billy Corgan
#17. Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
Albert Schweitzer
#18. You are everything good in my life. Even when I thought all I had was the darkness, you were there. And you gave me something to live for. I couldn't let you go. No matter how hard I tried. I know now that's because to lose you would be losing the very best part of myself.
A Meredith Walters
#19. I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs
#20. Perhaps God is not calling you to live for peace, but rather to fight for it.
Michelle Griep
#21. One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Life is full of unanswerable questions including how to live and what to live for. It takes extreme courage to live honestly by a person's beliefs and never rest until a person achieves the type of life that he or she envisions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#24. Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#25. There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.
Leo Tolstoy
#26. I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#28. It was impossible to convince someone to live for his own sake. But he often thought it would be a more effective treatment to make people feel more urgently the necessity of living for others.
Hanya Yanagihara
#29. Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH ...
Jack Kerouac
#30. The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for?
Danielle Paige
#31. If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today.
Santosh Kalwar
#32. Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).
John Calvin
#33. I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
Charles Olson
#34. Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Pray for tomorrow
Daniel Salic
#35. I live for the moment to hit people.
Mike Tyson
#37. Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#38. I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#39. Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.
Pope Francis
#40. If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.
Sukant Ratnakar
#41. When you marry the one whom your soul loves, you die to self so that you live for your partner. - AHC III
A.H. Carlisle III
#42. Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
Miguel Syjuco
#43. Ever heard of a demon getting sick?" Zavid
'Of humans? All the time. It's what we live for" Livia
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
George Linnaeus Banks
#45. We'll wake up every day and we'll tell ourselves, Live for today, you retarded little shit. The end is near.
Joey Comeau
#46. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't
Tom McNeal
#47. HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]
J: People do.
HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see.
~Hilary Craven; Jessop
Agatha Christie
#48. I've always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can't live for a second without hope.
Brendan Rodgers
#49. He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
Tennessee Williams
#50. Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.
Jake T. Austin
#51. There are 365 days in the year, and as a working actor, you might only work 17 of them. You might only need to do two ads and you can afford to live for the year, but it doesn't make for a very satisfactory or fulfilling life. The point isn't to not work - it's to work.
Sarah Snook
#52. I would rather love and have my heart broken than never have had the feeling of love at all. Without love, what would you live for?
Alyssa Hervis
#53. While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
#54. A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain
Stephen King
#55. Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#56. To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.
Joe Hill
#57. It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Azar Nafisi
#58. I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.
John Travolta
#59. Xan spoke low. "I would die for you."
"Don't do that," said Devon. "Live for me.
Jez Morrow
#60. Live for today , die tommorow ..
Noel
#61. From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
Erykah Badu
#63. Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.
Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."
~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher
Richelle E. Goodrich
#64. Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
Sophocles
#65. I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.
Ringo Starr
#66. I don't see the world as you see it.
I see it as a game, and my aim is to complete it.
What you live for is what you die for:
To make a little name, grab some fame and the high score.
MURS
#67. We glorify Christ when we live for God - trusting, loving, and obeying Him.
Billy Graham
#68. To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
Menander
#69. I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
G-Eazy
#70. the truck. Yael was waiting at the front bumper, and as he came up to her, a sheriff's patrol car turned off the road and onto the track and accelerated toward them. Virgil said to Yael, "He's been shot, but he'll live. For the time being, anyway. He says he doesn't know anything
John Sandford
#71. Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#72. I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
Erica Jong
#73. I am the person you'll see everyday training when everyone else has gone home. I live for the one moment of glory when I save that goal or sink that 3-point shot and score the winning basket. I am the sport, I am the glory, nothing can change that. I am an athlete, no one can forget that.
Alexa Wilkinson
#74. You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
Ahmad Jamal
#75. I live for the moments that won't die in my memory.
Jenim Dibie
#76. A good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.
Rebecca West
#77. We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.
Mary Connealy
#78. Christians ought to carry written in our hearts the solemn truth of how short is our opportunity to witness for Christ and live for Him.
Billy Graham
#79. Live for a purpose greater than yourself.
Mitt Romney
#80. Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back?
Why am I not enough to live for?
Libba Bray
#81. Live for possibilities. Live with passion and purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Tom Robbins
#83. What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.
George W. Bush
#84. A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
Bob Harrington
#85. Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - ... for discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.
Margaret Caroline Anderson
#86. I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
Zadie Smith
#87. You are the breath I need to breathe. I live for you, Alexis. Without you, I am nothing." - Jackson Cole
Sarah Curtis
#88. BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
Nikki Giovanni
#89. ...got the ink as a constant symbol of what I fight for and of what I have to live for.
Megan Mitcham
#90. Even God does not call every human a man. There are some who have not managed to attain the height of those who God refers to as men. They might be giving birth, eating and drinking, having fun, but yet, when they don't live for what they were created for, they remain biomasses.
Sunday Adelaja
#91. It is hardest to kill the man who has the most to live for.' He took a pretend shot. 'The empty, the soulless, the hate-filled enemies drop like flies. Those who love, and love hard, are the ones left standing.
Catherine Doyle
#92. When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.
Steve Pavlina
#93. A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men on earth; rather, he lives only for others and not for himself. To this end he brings his body into subjection that he may the more sincerely and freely serve others.
Martin Luther
#94. How can we know ourselves by ourselves? ... Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.
James Hillman
#95. I'm really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else's applause. That's a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.
Jon Foreman
#96. As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
David Brainerd
#97. I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great - something that would make life worth living
B.P. Morgan
#98. Fear the time when the bombs stopped falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live - for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken.
John Steinbeck
#99. Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. He kept fighting. If you didn't have something to live for, he reasoned, you'd die. Not just to live for, but to live toward. He thought for a little while he'd live for someone else - a
Leslie Parry
