Top 49 Best Survival Quotes
#1. Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
Allen Klein
#2. It was the resilience in human beings that represented their best chance of survival, their ability to look the unimaginable, the unconscionable, the unprecedented in the eye.
Salman Rushdie
#3. I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.
Damon Lindelof
#4. ...the best way to ensure survival is to not needlessly endanger yourself."
"Yeah, well, I don't want to just survive. I want to *live*.
T.L. Walker
#5. It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
Leon C. Megginson
#6. Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
Michael Shermer
#7. In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
Charles Darwin
#8. The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.
Joni Mitchell
#9. Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.
John Silber
#10. With my subjects - the thousands of people I have photographed - I have shared the joy of survival, the courage to resist oppression, the anguish of loss, the resilience of the oppressed, the brutality of the worst of men and the tenderness of the best.
Lynsey Addario
#11. Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.
Dalai Lama
#12. She pushed him back to the desk, poking his chest.
I may punch you, bite you, crush your nuts between my thighs. It's going to be the best hate sex I've ever had. And your survival is not my first concern.
Kate Meader
#14. In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives ...
Stephen King
#15. Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative: liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors its worst members.
James O'Toole
#16. The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
Bill Frist
#17. Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#18. And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
#19. Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.
Liu Cixin
#20. I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Karen Joy Fowler
#21. For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#22. Any environmental biologist or statistician will tell you that humankind's best chance of long-term survival occurs with a global population of around four billion.
Dan Brown
#23. As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.
Nando Parrado
#24. The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#25. Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.
Harvey V. Fineberg
#26. It's a law of survival, isn't it? - to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.
Ayn Rand
#27. The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.
Susan Ee
#28. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.
Jocelyn Murray
#29. The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.
Susan Ee
#30. It is not always the best people who emerge from hiding, from the corners and cracks of that farmedout field, but often those who have proven themselves strongest, not always those who will create new values but rather those whose thick skin and internal resilience have ensured their survival.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#31. Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.
Dwight Henry
#32. Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food ... just so they afford something to eat.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#33. Do you know the best way to get your body heat back?" Ethan asked her as he looked her in the eyes and stroked her glossy brown hair. "The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked.
Amanda Bretz
#34. I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
David Rakoff
#35. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry saber-toothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying "What a magnificent brute!" and "Here, pussy.
Terry Pratchett
#36. At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine steam pipes. This was the only drinking water that we had access to, and though it was hot and very rusty, it was the best drink I felt I'd ever had.
Alfred Nestor
#37. Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.
Joan Rivers
#38. The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
#39. Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.
Ogden Nash
#40. When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.
Suzanne Somers
#41. In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#42. Although fostering a peaceful, prosperous and equitable hemisphere is clearly in the best interest of the United States, Washington has not always supported Central America's struggle for economic survival.
Oscar Arias
#43. You're supposed to take the man that has the best chance of survival.
James Patterson
#44. You are on the floor crying,
and you have been on the floor crying
for days.
And that is you being brave.
That is you getting through it
as best you know how.
No one else can decide
What your tough looks like.
Clementine Von Radics
#45. I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.
Ludmila Engquist
#46. Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.
Richard Branson
#47. Choices, Choices, Choices!
Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
Aaron Levie
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