Will To Live Quotes - Page 4

• Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Years, Three

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

  Jenny Hval

  Needs, Stuff, Revolution

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pain, Passion, Coward

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Mean, World, Affirmation

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.

  John Lithgow

  Mother, Jobs, Cheer

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Flesh, Violence, Renounce

  4 Copy quote

• It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

  Sophia Loren

  Curiosity, Energy, Needs

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

  Winston Churchill

  Stories, England, Guides

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

  184 Copy quote

  Show source

• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, History

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  62 Copy quote

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  548 Copy quote

• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  268 Copy quote

• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

  97 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  618 Copy quote

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  158 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

  734 Copy quote

  Show source

• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  564 Copy quote

• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  129 Copy quote

• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

  119 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  391 Copy quote

• The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Boredom, Want, Absence

  25 Copy quote

• Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Unique, Bipolar

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Bipolar, Desire, Erode

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Deep Thought, Novelists

  141 Copy quote