Top 100 Quotes About To Live For
#1. No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Seneca The Younger
#2. Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.
Marty Rubin
#3. Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.
Tyler Perry
#5. The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.
Mark Driscoll
#6. But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for ...
Mark Steyn
#7. It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.
Ann Leckie
#8. I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I Love You.
Jonathan Larson
#9. We also have a new motivation to battle with sin: we're no longer under law, but under grace. This is counterintuitive. People think that law and legalism will best motivate us to strive to do what's right. But it's grace that enables us to live for God. "For
Tim Chester
#11. Every day you live as a Christian, you are accountable to live for Christ.
Monica Johnson
#13. To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.
Charlotte Bronte
#14. All I can really tell you, laddie, is to live for today. For the moment. Wasting time is the biggest mistake we can make in lo-ove.
Elizabeth Morgan
#15. We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.
Seneca.
#16. The Church is the Church only when it exists for others ... not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#17. I really don't give a care, I'm going to live for ever
Zach Braff
#18. To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?
Morton Feldman
#19. Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.
Marcus Garvey
#20. You may hesitate, wondering whether you will have strength to live for God. Don't worry. God will give you what you need if you will just make the choice to live for him.
Rick Warren
#21. People today are dying for something to live for.
J.S.B. Morse
#22. Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.
Aaron Kampman
#23. Humans should believe in the power of living for just one day, those who want to live for tomorrow are not living.
Santosh Kalwar
#24. It's the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn't there, we would have nothing to live for.
Scarlett Dawn
#25. Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?
Rick Warren
#26. In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
#27. When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
Andrei Platonov
#28. don't think women have the right to a self. They are supposed to live for others. Qualities that are seen as normal and desirable in men - ambition, confidence, outspokenness - are perceived as selfish and aggressive in women, especially when they have children.
Katha Pollitt
#29. He said Bailey taught him to love and to put things in perspective, to live for the present, to say I love you often and to mean it. And to be grateful for every day. It taught him patience and perseverance.
Amy Harmon
#30. You know what you are?" she said. "You're a survivor who has nothing to live for.
Adam Johnson
#31. 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
#32. A faithful worship leader magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skillfully combining God's Word with music, thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God's presence, and to live for God's glory.
Bob Kauflin
#33. Still he was uncertain. He wondered if everything had gone as it should. Was that all there was to it? Perhaps it had been celebrated out of proportion because there was nothing else to live for.
Leonard Gardner
#35. Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.
Jessica Zafra
#37. Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.
Gerald Brenan
#38. People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.
Os Guinness
#39. It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Leo Buscaglia
#40. People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.
Albert Einstein
#41. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.
Fredrika Bremer
#42. Music is something to live for. It is just for me, nobody else can take away from me.It makes me so happy and I can rely on it completely - it'll always be there!
Eliza Doolittle
#43. our childhood is over now, Marshal. Mankind can survive very well without an intimate study of your susceptibilities but not, unfortunately, without your other functions and talents. Do you think I bring any child into the world to live for himself alone?
Dorothy Dunnett
#44. To love someone means you have something in life to fight for, something to live for - I guess you wouldn't know, you've never felt love, so you can't possibly understand.
J.A. Redmerski
#46. IT HAS ALWAYS been a mystery to me why so many Christians in the West struggle to live for what so many Christians in persecuted countries are willing to die for.
Johnnie Moore
#47. Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury
#48. Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.
Chuck Hogan
#49. And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
Chris Bohjalian
#50. I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
Dorothy Parker
#51. Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#52. Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.
Thomas Mann
#53. All the love I've earned and lost and still wish to live for, I let burn in me. Half
Pierce Brown
#54. THE BASIC CON
Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.
Lew Welch
#55. It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for.
Or die for.
Magnus Flyte
#56. When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
Charles Spurgeon
#57. I believe, though I'm not sure, once you are an adult, and come back to the home of your parents to live, for some odd reason, you're reduced to being a child again, and dependent. Her parents tug her one way - and we pull her another way -
V.C. Andrews
#58. To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for.
The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in
tragedy.
Cyprian Norwid
#59. Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior?
Tara Kelly
#60. It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.
Horace Mann
#61. I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
Robert Herrick
#62. I don't want to die for a few pictures. I want to live for every sunrise I can clap my eyes on; I want to see my family get older; I want to see the world try and get a bit more peaceful and understanding, which unfortunately I don't think I'll ever see.
Don McCullin
#63. I know from experience Dev, purposely breaking a man and leaving him with nothing left to live for can be a very dangerous thing.
-Moe
Ashley Jade
#64. I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.
Lou Gehrig
#66. 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
#67. When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.
Tommy Wallach
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Perhaps God is not calling you to live for peace, but rather to fight for it.
Michelle Griep
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today.
Santosh Kalwar
#76. 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.
#77. 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
#78. Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
Miguel Syjuco
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.
Joe Hill
#83. It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
Azar Nafisi
#84. 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
#85. How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?
Jeaniene Frost
#86. She worked to live; then, also to live, for the heart too has its hunger, she loved.
Victor Hugo
#87. The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.
George Barna
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great - something that would make life worth living
B.P. Morgan
#91. 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
#92. When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.
Ivan Goncharov
#93. Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.
Mariska Hargitay
#94. If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute.
Billy Graham
#95. It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
Ricky Gervais
#96. Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#97. Sitting here, beneath this majestic oak tree under the hot afternoon sun in the middle of nowhere, the concept of time, present, and future, were all blurred. What was time if you didn't know whether you had it?
When you weren't sure what you had to live for? - Skylla Warden
Rachael Wade
#98. Create a goal and a purpose to live for, work for, and die for.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.
Hyman George Rickover
#100. What do we have to live for, but each other. What do we have to die for, but our love?
Don DeLillo
