Top 480 Living Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Living Quotes from famous people such as Andy Rooney, Ram Nath Kovind, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alan Cohen, Tom Wilson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mes

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney
Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.
Ram Nath Kovind
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
Alan Cohen
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
Tom Wilson
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie
I’ve always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I needed to do something else. Art was a tough way to make a living.
Stephen Hillenburg
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it’s really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
Kerry Washington
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that’s not true. You’re always better off living.
Dashiell Hammett
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
Ulrich Beck
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce
I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.
Morgan Freeman
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Andre Breton
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Gail Sheehy
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore White
Just when you think we’re living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.
Luis Fonsi
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
Dorothea Lange
I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.
Jim Carrey
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
Sukarno
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don’t want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I’m building. I am privileged to play golf for a living – look around St Andrews, that’s my office.
Rory McIlroy
We're all humans living on this tiny little rock, float

We’re all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all just get along.
Finn Balor
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
Afrika Bambaataa
A Hindu is interested in the welfare of all: not merely humans, but all living beings.
Yogi Adityanath
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it’s hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
Anna Deavere Smith
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Orson Welles
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
Maya Angelou
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia
That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
D. H. Lawrence
We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.
Joel C. Rosenberg
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you’re done living. I’ll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
I have done my time living on the run. I’m British and I want to come home.
Gary Glitter
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
All I care about is providing and living every day. I don’t care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.
Tyson Fury
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Eric Butterworth
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
Stephen Gardiner
Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
Karen Salmansohn
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread – the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
Ivan Pavlov
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
Your life is always worth living.
Dan Reynolds
I’m from Dagestan, I’m born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we’re starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.
Patrice O’Neal
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else… For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.
Lea Thompson
You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.
Kerli
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi
Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
Meghan Markle
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Frank Knox
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Portadown was the most marginalized of all the Nationalist communities in the North. Suddenly we were living in a town where, if you were Catholic, you literally couldn’t walk up the street without getting into some kind of conflict.
Adrian Dunbar