“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
J. K. Rowling
50 FAMOUS QUOTES · LIVING FULLY
Read 50 famous living fully quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
J. K. Rowling
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”Mahatma Gandhi
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”Eleanor Roosevelt
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
“To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices; today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”
Kevyn Aucoin
“I'm gonna live till I die.”
Frank Sinatra
“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”Benjamin Franklin
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”Napoleon Bonaparte
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Seneca
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Victor Hugo
“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”Henry David Thoreau
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the Dust descend.”
Omar Khayyam
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and above all those who live without love.”
J. K. Rowling
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.”George Bernard Shaw
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
Seneca
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.”Marcus Aurelius
“Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.”
Scottish Proverb
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”Walt Whitman
“Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.”
Tibetan Proverb