quotes about Live By
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay -
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
-- Allen Drury -
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Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.
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I don't really live by plans.
-- Andrea CorrSource : "Andrea Corr interview: I got excited about music again" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2011.
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..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
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We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.
-- Bruce H. LiptonSource : "What do you stand for? Values or Beliefs?" by Great Work Cultures, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2017.
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We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.
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We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.
-- Celeste HolmSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.
-- Crispin Glover -
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You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
-- David Gilmour -
I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.
-- Delia Ephron -
Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.
-- Dianna Agron -
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And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
-- Donald Cargill -
Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.
-- Douglas McGregorSource : Douglas McGregor, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (2006). “The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional
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Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
-- E. Stanley Jones -
To live by worry is to live against reality
-- E. Stanley Jones -
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I will not live by rules that make no sense to me
-- Evan Tanner -
Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.
-- Felix BaumgartnerSource : "All About Ads: Advertising the Indian Grand Prix". "All About Ads" with Shruti Verma Singh, profit.ndtv.com. October 22, 2012.
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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
-- Francis Chan -
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We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
-- Gary OldmanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
-- George CrabbeSource : George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.37
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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
-- Georges BernanosSource : Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.122, Da Capo Press
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He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by.
-- Greg LaurieSource : FaceBook post by Greg Laurie from Aug 24, 2011
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We live by choice, not by chance.
-- Hal UrbanSource : Hal Urban (2005). “Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
-- Harvey Cox -
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
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It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
-- Hermann Broch -
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
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I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. ...
-- Isabella Rossellini -
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You are a victim of the rules you live by.
-- Jenny HolzerSource : Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
-- John Ruskin -
People cannot live by lending money to one another.
-- John Ruskin -
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Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.
-- Judd Apatow -
Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked.
-- Julie Garwood -
I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.
-- Kevin Gates -
In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear.
-- Kevin W. Pearson -
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Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
-- Linus TorvaldsSource : "Linux: Linus on Choice". Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List, web.archive.org. September 24, 2003.
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
-- Lorna Luft -
I have a lot of beliefs and I live by none of them.
-- Louis C. K. -
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Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.
-- Marie ForleoSource : FaceBook post by Marie Forleo from Dec 19, 2014
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The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.
-- Mark DriscollSource : Twitter post from Nov 18, 2013
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If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.
-- Marvin Bower -
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...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.
-- Massad Ayoob -
None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
-- Matthew Henry -
I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
-- Melissa Bank -
My team and I live by 3 words: RELATE. LOVE. INSPIRE
-- Mike Posner -
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To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !
-- Mikhail NaimySource : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.115, Duncan Baird Publishers
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And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.
-- Mineko IwasakiSource : Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.287, Simon and Schuster
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I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.
-- Miranda Kerr -
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
-- Morrie Schwartz -
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Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.
-- Nancy Gibbs -
Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.
-- Neem Karoli Baba -
I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.
-- Niki Taylor -
Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
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I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.
-- Pope John XXIIISource : Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.307, A&C Black
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If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.
-- Rachel Naomi Remen -
When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem.
-- Rachel Smith -
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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
-- Robert Harbison -
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
-- Russell Baker -
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Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!
-- Russell Simmons -
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.
-- Si RobertsonSource : Si Robertson (2014). “Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle”, p.192, Simon and Schuster
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You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.
-- Stephen Kendrick -
Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.
-- Steve Jobs -
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
-- Tea LeoniSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
-- Tennessee Williams -
We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
-- Terry Goodkind -
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If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives
-- Thomas King -
I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
-- Tiger Woods -
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
-- Victor Hugo -
If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
-- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
-- Wassily KandinskySource : Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina, Wassily Kandinsky (2016). “Wassily Kandinsky Artworks”, p.2, Book and Magazine
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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
-- Whittaker ChambersSource : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.4, Regnery Publishing
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
-- William GurnallSource : 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
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Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
-- William James -
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You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.
-- Winslow HomerSource : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”
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I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.
-- Xuanzang -
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
-- Zubin Mehta -
First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
-- ArcaSource : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.
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