I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
John F. Kennedy

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt