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source: William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.88

topic: Faith, Exercise, Live By

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

- William James

topic: Yes And No, Live By

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

- Winslow Homer

source: Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

topic: Live By, Watercolors

I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

- Xuanzang

topic: West, East, Live By

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

- Zubin Mehta

topic: Medicine, Doctors, Live By

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

- Arca

source: "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

topic: Firsts, Live By, My Own

Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.

- Jonathan Sadowski

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Words To Live By, Live By, Convenient

O'Connor lives by the following words: You don't look back. When people ask O'Connor now, "Aren't you sorry you resigned because everything you voted for is being reversed by the current court?" She says, "You can't look back."

- Linda Hirshman

topic: Sorry, People, Live By

If you want it, become it.

- Mastin Kipp

topic: Want, Live By, Ifs

Live by faith, not by sight.

- Mastin Kipp

topic: Sight, Live By

We tend to promise by our hopes and live by our fears.

- Michael Grinder

topic: Promise, Live By

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

- Michael Redd

topic: Basketball, Live By, Seems

Exact words are hard to live by.

- Mike Brady

topic: Live By, Hard

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

- Roger Chamberlain

topic: Air, Praise, Live By, Commendation, Deserving

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

- Rubem Alves

topic: Plant, Live By

Leaders live by choice, not accident.

- Mark Gorman

topic: Choices, Live By

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

- Dorothy Richardson

source: Dorothy Richardson (1905). “The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl”, p.45, University of Virginia Press

topic: Jobs, Work, Live By

A dear friend of mine once told me that the only way around is through. I now live by this.

- A. J. McLean

topic: Way, Dear Friend, Live By

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

source: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.13, Stanford University Press

topic: Philosophy, Relevant, Live By

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Vision, Earth, Live By

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Spirit, Live By, Inherent

I have a lot of beliefs... and I live by none of them...

- Louis C. K.

source: "Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater". Documentary, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

topic: Belief, Live By

You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

- Gabriel Iglesias

topic: Cake, Live By, Dies

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin Group

topic: Want, Walks, Live By

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2010). “Winter Trees”, p.32, Faber & Faber

topic: Live By, Organs

People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.

- Taraji P. Henson

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Dream, People, Live By

I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Way, Live By, Feels

We live by reposing trust in each other.

- Pliny the Elder

topic: Live By

...we make our lives by what we love.

- John Cage

source: John Cage (1961). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.114, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Live By, Our Lives

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

- John Fowles

topic: Live By

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

- John Green

source: John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

topic: Real, Labyrinth Looking For Alaska, Live By, Looking For Alaska Book

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

topic: Existence, Live By, Plans

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

- Mark Twain

topic: Bread, Compliment, Live By

When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.

- Tom Regan

source: Source: www.all-creatures.org

topic: Mean, Vegan, Live By, Vegan Diet

Being trustworthy is something you are, something you stand for and a core value you live by. It isn't something you can train for nor is it something you can manipulate. You either have those values or you don't.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Trust, Manipulate, Live By, Core Values

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

- Masiela Lusha

source: Source: thecelebritycafe.com

topic: Style, Needs, Live By

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Secret, Live By, Dies

I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

- Richard Saul Wurman

topic: Two, Live By, Asks, Credo

i will live by the gun and die by the gun

- Tupac Shakur

topic: Gun, Live By, Dies

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

- Rick Warren

source: FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Oct 17, 2012

topic: Teaching, Live By, Feels

To know nothing is the happiest life.

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Life, Inspire, Live By

What we live by we die by.

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost (2004). “North of Boston”, p.68, 1st World Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Live By, Dies

I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

- Dogen

topic: Buddhism, Live By, Letting Things Happen

You choose the #life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Live By, You Choose, Ifs

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

- Donald Miller

source: Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.71, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: People, Grace, Live By

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers".

topic: Imperfection, Live By

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

- Walter Brueggemann

topic: Live By, Possessed

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.

- Bernie Siegel

source: Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

topic: Belief, Life Experience, Live By

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

- Henry Rollins

source: Source: oustedproductions.net

topic: Important, Temper, Live By, Bad Temper

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

topic: Bread, Wheat, Live By

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

- William Ellery Channing

topic: Love, Affection, Live By

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

- Igor Stravinsky

source: "Expositions and Developments".

topic: Memories, Live By

I can no longer live by thinking.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Thinking, Live By, I Can

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

- N. T. Wright

topic: Book, Want, Live By, I Want To Die

If I'm gonna put a message out there, I want to make sure I stay consistent. I'm up on my game, because I said it. People take your words and they live by them.

- Young Jeezy

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: People, Consistent, Live By

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.60, Dial Press

topic: Technology, Electronics, Live By, Player Piano

He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

source: Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Reason, Live By

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

- Carl Linnaeus

topic: People, Fit, Live By, Physically Fit

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Literature, Habit, Live By

To the stars through difficulties.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Stars, Difficulty, Live By

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

- James E. Faust

topic: Priorities, Firsts, Live By

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Wit, Live By

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

- James Hillman

topic: Dull, Way, Live By

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

- LeCrae

topic: Desire, Spirit, Live By

Live by looking for things to do for other people.

- Shinichi Suzuki

source: Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Mary Louise Nagata (2014). “Ability Development from Age Zero”, p.50, Alfred Music

topic: People, Live By, Things To Do

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.134

topic: Men, Poetic, Live By

Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ...but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still...

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.340, Macmillan

topic: People, Rangers, Live By

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

- Pablo Picasso

source: Pablo Picasso, Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein, Magdalena Dabrowski, Christel Hollevoet (2010). “Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, p.110, Metropolitan Museum of Art

topic: Legends, Belief, Live By

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