Welcome to Lively Quotes, your destination for inspiration, wisdom, and motivation encapsulated in succinct phrases. In a world bustling with the constant hum of activity, sometimes all it takes is a few carefully chosen words to ignite a spark within us, offering guidance, solace, or simply a moment of reflection. Here, we curate a collection of quotes spanning various themes, from love and friendship to success and perseverance, designed to uplift spirits and stimulate minds.
Throughout history, great thinkers, writers, and leaders have left behind a treasure trove of insightful words that resonate across generations. Whether it’s a timeless line from literature, a profound observation from a philosopher, or an uplifting mantra from a modern-day influencer, the power of words to inspire and provoke thought is undeniable. At Lively Quotes, we believe in the transformative potential of these nuggets of wisdom, and we invite you to explore our curated selection to find the words that speak to you and fuel your journey.
Below, you’ll find a compilation of quotes on various topics, ready to be embraced, shared, and celebrated. Feel free to copy them, pair them with imagery, or adorn them with stylish fonts to create your own personalized dose of inspiration. Let these quotes serve as guiding stars in your daily life, illuminating your path with their timeless wisdom and unwavering positivity. Enjoy the journey, and may these words inspire you to reach greater heights and embrace the beauty of every moment.
I have a very lively and colourful show. It’s two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself. Rod Stewart
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. Geoffrey Chaucer
Something that I’ve always been. Always lively. I don’t want to be dull. Craig Sager
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises. Beverly Cleary
As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transforming themselves into working women, Clara Driscoll enters the male field of stained glass artistry and builds a lively, multi-national, multi-class women’s department within Tiffany Studios. Susan Vreeland
I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself. Richard Harding Davis
Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I’m done with that. Peter Dinklage
There are quite some interesting roles. Just take my career for instance. I played a vivacious aerobics instructor in Porki.’ In my Telugu debut Bava,’ I played a lively girl from a village. In Udayan,’ my Tamil debut, I played a soft spoken Brahmin girl. Pranitha Subhash
Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it’s not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there’s a lot of people, there’s money, there’s a big machine to kind of make it – and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process. David MacKenzie
Surely there’s a difference between cocky and lively and entertaining. Ruth Jones
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed. Simon Greenleaf
Blush is really fresh and young, really invigorating. I like it more than bronzer. I think it’s just a bit more lively. Mia Goth
I’m impressed with how ‘Newsweek’s’ outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham. Tina Brown
From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible. Alex Pareene
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. Jane Austen
I identify strongly with the people in London – people who love music – and the live music scene is so lively and prominent. It’s euphoric. Koffee
I connect with my culture through my family. I speak Portuguese to my parents so that I can practice. I stay engaged with my extended family through a lively group chat on WhatsApp. That sense of community and family is the heart of Brazilian culture, and staying engaged with my family is what keeps me connected. Camila Mendes
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch
The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women’s roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside. Marcia Muller
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. David Hume
I have a short, home-made armguard because I don’t like the regular ones. I’d wear that on a lively pitch. I don’t use a chest guard because I find it too restrictive. Joe Root
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. Rita Mae Brown
I love Blake Lively. She’s one of my favorite actresses, and she’s got a really classy and beautiful look. She’s somebody that I really look up to and follow. Danielle Campbell
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. James Boswell
I love ’80s music, but in the dressing room, it tends to be more lively! Gerard Pique
Puerto Rican culture is very lively; very lively people; very warm people; and the food is really great. We’re all about cooking a lot of food and having family around, we’re kind of loud. It’s that sort of vibe and it’s great. David Lambert
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. George Saunders
I think it is good when your blood is pumping, you are feeling lively, nice and warm, you are loose, you are awake, and your brain is switched on. George Groves
I like going down to London for a couple of days, but it’s a place where I’d never fancy living – too busy, too lively, people on top of you. Gareth Barry
I don’t think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there’s a hunger out there for – whether it’s on the left or right – a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that. David Talbot
There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two. George Monbiot
I like the way I feel when I’m healthy; it makes me feel lively. Ashley Roberts
What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then… it’s gone. Terry Teachout
The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though. Vanessa Kerry
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes. Vivienne Westwood
I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy. Stockwell Day
Constance Wu is so dedicated, Anna Kendrick is ridiculously funny, and Blake Lively is magnetic. Henry Golding
It was tough doing ‘Underneath the Lintel’ in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult. Richard Schiff
My top three personal best-dressed list: Lea Michele. I think she really knows how to dress. Blake Lively is great. And Rihanna. I really respect how bold and out-there she is. Janel Parrish
My style icons are Victoria Beckham, Blake Lively and Zendaya. Chrishell Stause
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? Bruce Sterling
I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance. Charles Bukowski
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves. Martha Beck
It’s easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. Kara Swisher
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. Theodore Roethke
We always describe a piece as ‘really lively’ where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical. Jerry Yang
If I ran a national burger franchise – which I don’t – I’d make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing. Charlie Brooker
People always come up to me and say, ‘you should do standup.’ It’s nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun. James Patterson
Anderson is a really lively guy, a really cheerful guy. Fred
Life is a lively process of becoming. Douglas MacArthur
I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part. Olga Tokarczuk
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. James Boswell
I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have. Jacki Weaver
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven. Samuel Hopkins
A sure way to claim a bit of cool in Hollywood – if you’re an actress, at least – is to announce you don’t have a stylist. Some of the most consistently elegant, inimitable women on the red carpet, like Marion Cotillard, Blake Lively, and Diane Kruger, say they go at it alone. Kayleen Schaefer
Look, there’s no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes. Charlie Baker
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. Lynn Nottage
My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a ‘lively imagination.’ She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren. Jeremy Hardy
I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details. Jim Murphy
I don’t think films about working class people are sad at all; I think they’re funny and lively and invigorating and warm and generous and full of good things. Ken Loach
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. Marquis de Sade
I cannot stand in one place and sing for three hours. By nature, I like to make things lively. Asha Bhosle
I’m lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing. John Barrowman
Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work. Michael Leunig
There is a part of me which is aggressive and demure, the other side being bright, sexy and lively. Neha Bhasin
I am really influenced by normal, simple, everyday life and people, like the Biji and Dolly in ‘Vicky Donor,’ who used to drink and say whatever they felt like. These characters were so lively. I have seen these people around me. Shoojit Sircar
We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. Theresa Rebeck
If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively. Mel Brooks
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully. Lee H. Hamilton
Some scenes are just more people’s thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she’s there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come. Gavin Creel
After our first week of filming ‘Deadpool 2,’ Blake Lively got me a candle. It smells really good, and it said, ‘To Firefist’ on it. Julian Dennison
Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. Onstage, I do a little smokier, a little more contouring, but I still always want to be an approachable and real artist, so I never try to go overboard. Kelsea Ballerini
My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you’re in a prisoner-of-war camp. I’m supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You’re giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We’re on a hunt, it’s a mystery, and it’s amazing. Bonnie Bassler
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord. Saint Ignatius
Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can. Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren’t necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that’s great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That’s what it’s all about. Nathaniel Philbrick
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven’t got his guts nor his very lively appetites. Ian Fleming
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. Julie Burchill
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. Hu Jintao
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us. Parker Palmer
I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn’t wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn’t thin. Lucy Davis
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. Mary Wortley Montagu
There is a general notion that playing a bubbly girl is undemanding and less challenging. But that’s not the case. You need oodles of energy to bring out the spirit of a lively character. Besides, no two bubbly girls are the same. Every character I have played is different from the other. I love being chosen for such lively roles. Genelia D’Souza
Once I changed my diet, I noticed I had a ton of energy – I was more lively and ready for the workouts; my body was better. I noticed it was definitely the stuff I was putting in my body that made me feel better. Paul George
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright’s genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. Jane Smiley
I still have a pretty lively audience in German and across Europe. And I continue to say, ‘Thank you, God,’ for making me smart enough to avoid getting hit by trucks and going out and finding myself an audience abroad. Which includes Asia – from Jakarta to Japan. Working hard at finding an audience abroad. Al Jarreau
He’s never portrayed as being funny. He was a very funny, happy, lively person. Fun to be around and exciting. He was my hero. Jack Hemingway
They’re great girls. They’re very funny, they’re very smart, they’re fun to be with. They’re very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they’re very confident girls. Laura Bush
I’m lively and gay by nature. Monica Vitti
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will. Edith Stein
I know that there are many things I could do, but I’m not interested. It’s more important to be loving and to have a lively mind. Veruschka von Lehndorff
‘At Random’ ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I’d finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday. Irv Kupcinet
I’m a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters. Emily Giffin
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage. William Hazlitt
I love ‘Gossip Girl.’ I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I’m also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like ‘Top Chef.’ Jessica Stroup
Public discourse degenerated. There’s no longer a place for intelligent debate at universities, where people just work for degrees and careers. My own experience was how my trade union’s lively branch debates dwindled to a few people round cups of coffee. There’s a climate of people frightened to say what they think for fear of offending someone. Claire Fox
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it. Michael Servetus
If I’m too lively, too crazy for someone, then you’re not my guy. Ulrika Jonsson
I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity. Al Seckel
The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein. Elaine Sciolino
