Top 100 Live Up To Quotes
#1. The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.
Huston Smith
#2. The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
Brennan Manning
#3. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.
Kimberly Giles
#4. You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#5. I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?
David Sedaris
#6. Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
Abigail Van Buren
#7. Yep, said Arthur. Somehow yep seemed the most positive thing he could say. Stronger than yeah and more heroic than yes. He hoped he could live up to it.
Garth Nix
#8. Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
Greg Louganis
#9. We're very proud to be part of the eurozone. But this comes with obligations and it is crucial we show the world we can live up to those obligations.
George Papandreou
#10. I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I. And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#11. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..
Alma Alexander
#12. May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.
Harry S. Truman
#14. When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
Anna Friel
#15. If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure.
David Bezmozgis
#16. A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#18. My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams
#19. There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.
Paul Kalanithi
#20. I wanted to live up to expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And
Sherman Alexie
#21. Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
Colin Powell
#22. Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#23. I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
#24. We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals.
Lonnie Bunch
#25. Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.
Laura Owens
#26. After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.
Cory Booker
#27. The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
Tom Scholz
#28. The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.
Henry Van Dyke
#29. A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk
Anne Perry
#30. You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#31. My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.
Lisa Kleypas
#32. This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
Yoko Ono
#33. I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
Jason Isbell
#34. We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#35. Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
Paul Simon
#36. Most people never live up to the potential they have been given. The results they produce and the life they experience are only a tiny fraction of what they are truly capable of. Why? What stops us? Only one thing: fear.
Darren Hardy
#38. My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.
Andre Holland
#39. Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midler
#40. Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.
Janny Wurts
#41. God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Walt Whitman
#42. Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
Alice Hegan Rice
#43. IN practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal - quite the opposite.
Pema Chodron
#44. I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about. It's not what this school represents." -Coach Frank Allocco
Neil Hayes
#45. Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.
Charlie Day
#46. The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo
#48. In the meantime, it's unfair of me to use my expectations as the standard for their behavior or hold it against them when they don't live up to my hopes.
Lysa TerKeurst
#49. You know, you're setting a pretty damn high bar for my future husband to live up to. He's going to have to be a rock star in the sack to even come close to this.
Katee Robert
#50. My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#51. The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
Scott McClellan
#52. It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.
William Howard Taft
#53. From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.
Kendrick Lamar
#54. Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
Jonathan Haidt
#55. You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
Don King
#56. I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would hope, and, if I didn't, what can I do tomorrow to be a little better, I do think we can improve. We get better at life as we get older.
David Brooks
#57. What had happened, he said he wanted to go looking for him, make him live up to his responsibilities. But what Jeanette knew and didn't say was that Bill Reynolds was married, a married man;
Justin Cronin
#58. People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
Barbara Billingsley
#59. Some kinds of literature demand to be treated respectfully. The obligation is on the reader to live up to them and not so much on them to entertain the reader.
Phyllis Rose
#60. People live up to your expectations, not their potential.
Stephen Young
#61. You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be
Joel Osteen
#62. I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.
Jane Horrocks
#63. You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard Feynman
#64. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
Dale Carnegie
#65. I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.
Jim Beaver
#67. Live up to your expectation and grow up to your determination.
Debasish Mridha
#70. When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
John F. Kerry
#71. I don't know why people have to go on dates," Mitch says. "If we called it hanging out or something, there'd be so much less pressure. But a date, God, that's like some huge thing to live up to.
Julie Murphy
#72. Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.
Bob Burg
#73. My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.
Dwyane Wade
#74. Our stories become self-fulfilling; we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one
Malti Bhojwani
#75. Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
R.A. Salvatore
#76. Sex is not a tryout. If she fails to live up to your expectations in the bedroom, will you love her less? If so, you can be certain you never loved her to begin with.
Jason Evert
#77. That," Liam said, "it'll be a lot to live up to." Frederic smiled. "So let's live up to it.
Christopher Healy
#78. To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard
Francis Fukuyama
#79. Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"
Cal Thomas
#80. When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
Paula Poundstone
#81. Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.
Aesop Rock
#82. To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
Robert Fulghum
#83. Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.
Kenneth Keniston
#85. The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14
Jurgen Moltmann
#86. My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.
Hardin B. Jones
#87. Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
Swami Vivekananda
#88. Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
Robert Breault
#89. You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.
Ani DiFranco
#90. Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.
John Roberts
#91. Work to live up to your dreams and fantasies; to hell with them who ask you to come back to reality.
Vikrmn
#92. When we live up to our calling, we remember that in God's church people do not set the agenda, they are the agenda.
D. A. Carson
#93. Stevenson told the legionnaires that patriotism "is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. . . . For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Scott Farris
#94. I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself
Robert Zubrin
#95. Where once I'd felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.
Barack Obama
#96. I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, "Let me just lean into being a guy who can't read or write."
Charlie Day
#97. The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.
Neil Strauss
#98. Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. - Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)
Jeanette Lynes
#99. If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.
Robert B. Parker
#100. We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
Joseph Addison
