Top 100 Living For Quotes
#1. Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account
Sunday Adelaja
#2. It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.
Charles Spurgeon
#3. If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.
Bill Walton
#4. It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Mariska Hargitay
#5. Blood pounded in Ruth's ears. She had never felt weaker or more confused. This was the moment she'd been living for, but the only thought she could muster was that her mother had not been Phyllis, as she'd been told, but Phoebe. The
Anita Diamant
#6. I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
Sophia Amoruso
#7. Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.
Walter J Chantry
#8. There is indescribable joy to be found, deep satisfaction to be felt, and an eternal purpose to be fulfilled in dying to ourselves and living for him.
David Platt
#10. If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
Thomas Merton
#11. My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
#12. There's something about Lily that makes all the terrible parts of me seem irrelevant. That makes a bad day momentary and a good one infinite.
It's love like this that's worth living for.
Krista Ritchie
#13. Until you realize love's the only thing worth living for in the first place
Katie Kacvinsky
#14. There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.
Cesar Chavez
#15. Trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose!
- Rebekah -
Nick Vujicic
#16. On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony.
Margaret Atwood
#17. Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
Richard Bach
#18. Sam, she was smart as hell. And she knew stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. She also felt stuff. Oh, man, could Sam feel. Sometimes I thought she was doing all the thinking, all the feeling, and all the living for both of us.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#19. We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.
Nicki Minaj
#20. If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
Abbi Glines
#21. And you're stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouth
Tired of living for your sick days
Every day makes you sick
Tired of living just get paid
When you're dying to live
but you can't
Dominic Owen Mallary
#22. We are quantity-obsessed: Instead of living for 30 pleasant years (and then calling it a life), most people would rather live for 80 unpleasant years.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#23. My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.
Tyson Fury
#24. If you are living for tomorrow, you will always be one day behind.
Bill Hicks
#25. Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.
Donald Miller
#26. Quit living for the world, live for yourself just you alone because it's starts with you.
Euginia Herlihy
#27. Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
William Osler
#28. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening - it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).
Rick Warren
#29. Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education
Sai Baba
#30. I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
Daniel H. Pink
#31. People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.
Marya Mannes
#32. There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
Louisa May Alcott
#33. Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?
Octavia E. Butler
#34. I made a living for 10 years making very typical TV commercials. But I always wanted to reach beyond that and do stuff that people might relate to in the way they relate to my nonbranded content.
Casey Neistat
#35. So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.
John Piper
#36. I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.
Eric Stoltz
#37. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering.
Karen Marie Moning
#38. There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
William Osler
#39. We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane Goodall
#40. It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
Dick Cavett
#41. In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.
Nick Kroll
#42. When everything considered valuable in life is seen to be nothing in comparison to the glory of Christ, you learn rather well that Christ alone is worth living for.
Matt Chandler
#43. Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.
Zig Ziglar
#44. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.
Nicole Krauss
#45. What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?
Ray Davies
#46. I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.
Sulla
#48. There are big advantages of living for God, therefore try to spend every minute you have walking with Him, listening to Him and learning of His wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
#49. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
Joseph Campbell
#50. There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people
Will Rogers
#51. At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
Hermann Hesse
#52. When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.
Bryant McGill
#53. 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
#54. In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
John Updike
#55. where creativity doesn't drive a company's strategic vision, most often the lowest price will be the winning formula. Success, abundance, a rising standard of living-for individuals, companies, communities, nations-will depend on a capacity to create, invent, and innovate.
Peter Georgescu
#56. It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.
Rick Warren
#57. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.
Michael Meade
#58. What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?
Brodi Ashton
#59. He might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
Margaret Atwood
#60. Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
Karl Pilkington
#61. Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.
Ogwo David Emenike
#62. The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
Soren Kierkegaard
#63. Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.
Mark Skousen
#64. School has ruined cinema.It's official. There's nothing worth living for.
Stephanie Perkins
#65. Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#66. She considers the past. She measures it and weighs it and holds it in her hand like a plum. The past is everything now, and she understands that this is what it means to be dying: You stop looking forward, instead living for moments that happened years before.
Thomas Christopher Greene
#67. Make sure that what you are living for is what you are willing to die for.
Charles F. Stanley
#68. Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.
Lisa Gardner
#70. Service simply means we embrace the possibility of living for more than ourselves.
Wes Moore
#71. I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.
Shailene Woodley
#72. The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
Patricia Richardson
#73. a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come - not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.
Stephen Mansfield
#74. To live in the moment is vastly different than living for it. To be truly present as life unfolds around one is to take fullest advantage of being alive.
April White
#75. I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
Adam Savage
#76. If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#77. One's 'life' is 'fractured'; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.
Dada Bhagwan
#78. The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.
Lee Adams
#79. Unconventional," said Jenkins. "What is conventional?" asked Andrew. "Living in a dream? Living for a memory? you must be weary of it." "Not
Clifford D. Simak
#80. Make your life worth living for, by living for the One who values it.
Anya VonderLuft
#81. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder that challenges us to make the best possible use of each moment of our lives? It certainly is, and hence my imperative: Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In
Viktor E. Frankl
#82. While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
John Ridley
#83. People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home.
Annie Dillard
#84. Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
Tom O'Connor
#85. The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.
Joe Flanigan
#86. Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
Whittaker Chambers
#88. If Joe thought that simple and logical was going to work, he was in for a world of hurt living for two months with three females.
Kristen Ashley
#89. I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.
Anthony Burgess
#90. Life is not about for living ourself,
It's about living for others
Amresh Kumar
#91. There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
David Platt
#92. We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded.
Tetsuo Miura
#93. Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call living for the moment.
Robert Black
#94. What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?
Donna Tartt
#95. It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.
Barbara De Angelis
#96. My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.
David Lee
#97. Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.
Carlos Mencia
#98. Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
Katherine Mansfield
