Will To Live Quotes

• Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

  Tom Wolfe

  Love, Expression, Ultimate

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• I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

  Yann Martel

  Giving Up, Fighting, Loss

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

  Mo Yan

  Struggle, Dying, Stronger

  Mo Yan (2013). “Big Breasts and Wide Hips: A Novel”, p.467, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

  Norman Cousins

  Gun, Survival, Never Quit

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Evil, Giving

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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

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• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

  Danny Boyle

  Powerful, Survival, Needs

  "127 Hours: Director Danny Boyle Says You’d Cut Your Hand Off, Too". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Spiritual, Three, World

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• There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

  Rebecca West

  Suicidal, Saws, Unending

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

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

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Design the life you want to live.

  Rachel Roy

  Inspirational, Positive, Design

  "Fashion Designer Rachel Roy". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2016.

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• Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Stronger, Fear Of Death

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motherhood, Principles, Fundamentals

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Men, Zest

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

  Agatha Christie

  Fighting, Age, Fighter

  Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

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• The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Needs, Speak, Lost

  "The Ecstasy of Communication" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Bernard and Caroline Schutze, New York:Semiotext(e), (p. 30), 1987.

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• For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.

  Smiley Blanton

  Vitality, Half, Alive

  Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”

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