Good Survival Quotes

#1. It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.

Cortney S. Warren

#2. It is hard to find a good survival strategy that will work simultaneously against multiple threats.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. Calamities are unavoidable, in love and travel.

All it takes to make it to the end of the road are some good Survival Tips.

Vivian Swift

#4. Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.

Jack Provonsha

#5. The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

Daniel Levitin

#6. Love is antithetical to human nature. Humans seek their own good. Their own survival. Their own glorification. But love seeks the good of the other, even to the detriment of the self. Even to the detriment of others.

Christina Daley

#7. Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

Zoe Bell

#8. I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

Audre Lorde

#9. I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.

Harper Lee

#10. Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because "the key in survival is knowing you're lost": they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn't found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

Adam Baker

#12. I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

Chloe Sevigny

#13. Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Germaine Greer

#14. I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.

Sapphire.

#15. Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Tom Stoppard

#16. Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#17. Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

Ayn Rand

#18. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be - *that* was magical.

Ransom Riggs

#19. It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

Bill Nye

#20. It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

Garrison Keillor

#21. I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

Natsuki Takaya

#22. Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He

Mary Doria Russell

#23. Let go of the pain. Dwell on positive thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Grace Paley

#25. To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

Oriana Fallaci

#26. You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival - your emotional survival - will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over.

Jennifer Niven

#27. It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

Joy Bryant

#28. Greed is rightly considered a "deadly sin" because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good. Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival [...] replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness.

Bell Hooks

#29. But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#30. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

Robert J. Sawyer

#31. The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.

Joe Teti

#32. Funny how easily we forget the good times while the nightmares haunt us. Guess that's a survival mechanism. We're not here to be happy; we're just here to be here. I

Hugh Howey

#33. Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough.
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Atsuko Asano

#34. Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Ayn Rand

#35. Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Vanna Bonta

#36. Some adopted new strategies for survival; they went dormant. Others became dust that could regenerate our past forms; time rendered this dust defective. It brought only disease and misery; but that was good, we saw the misery and found it good.

Greg Bear

#37. On the Internet, it's survival of the easiest ... Give users a good experience and they're apt to turn into frequent and loyal customers. But ... it's easy to turn to another supplier in the face of even a minor hiccup. Only if a site is extremely easy to use will anybody bother staying around.

Jakob Nielsen

#38. Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.

Fernando Divina

#39. Every good story starts with a simple premise. This one begins with the notion of survival. The determination to live is both instinctive and ferocious. It often encourages compromise with evil. Only the Devil ever benefits from such a bargain.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#40. Yes," I whisper so the others won't hear, "but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.

Caroline George

#41. It's always good to give yourself the advantage.

Joe Teti

#42. I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

Michael Lewis

#43. It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.

Leslie Lee Sanders

#44. Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Frank Herbert

#45. There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#46. Adam laughed. Son, in time you'll understand that every man has to have a girly conversation with his woman whether he wants to or not. His survival depends on his willingness to accept it with good grace.

Maya Banks

#47. I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

E.B. White

#48. I hold on to my adopted shore, chanting private vows: wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Let me be a good animal today. Let me dance in the waves of my private tide, the habits of survival and love.

Barbara Kingsolver

#49. Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Rollo May

#50. The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good thing that may yet happen is that our lives will have great meaning for those we leave behind.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#51. He's afraid," Graber said.
"Yes, naturally. But he's a good dog."
"And a man-eater."
"We're all that."
"Why?"
"We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for a bit of warmth and light and friendship.

Erich Maria Remarque

#52. I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?

Abram Hoffer

#53. The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

A.J. Muste

#54. We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

Vincent Tan

#55. The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

Clementine Von Radics

#56. But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

Rob Thomas

#57. Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

Margaret D. Klein

#58. It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.

Andrew Levkoff

#59. Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind ... Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

David Gemmell

#60. In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Stewart Brand

#61. The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.

Tag Cavello

#62. Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.

Meles Zenawi

#63. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#64. 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

#65. A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory ... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty ...

Walter Cronkite

#66. Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Ken Burns

#67. We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.

Mario Cuomo

#68. Looking good Matt, you look like a money.

Joe Teti

#69. I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

Joe Teti

#70. Finding your bliss can make survival seem like. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.

Sharon Law Tucker

#71. Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.

Richard Branson

#72. I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

Vic Morrow

#73. I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Susanna Kaysen

#74. A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

Michel Aflaq

#75. Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

Lord Kelvin

#76. Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.
This is war between good people for their respective survival.
Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.

Toba Beta

#77. Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.

Rick Yancey

#78. The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.

Daniel Smith

#79. A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival.

Frans De Waal

#80. Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.

Congressman X

#81. Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.

Carolyn Wall

#82. I have come to believe that forgiveness is the key to survival. It does no good to see everything as a struggle between opposing factions. Few things are that simple.

Elliott Holt

#83. Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

Melina Marchetta