Top 100 Life Survival Quotes
#1. We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?
Thor Heyerdahl
#3. I understood then why people were so often defeated by this world. Perhaps the web of support that they required just did not come into alignment when it had to. Or perhaps our culture lacked the channels by which to offer this support.
Guy Mankowski
#5. As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
Roberto Bolano
#8. It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.
John O'Callaghan
#9. 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
#10. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
Toba Beta
#11. In this life you will have some trials and tribulations. You cannot allow what happens to you to dictate who and what you become. Make a decision to do better and be better.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#12. At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
Joseph Campbell
#13. I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. We never surrendered. We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.
Manel Loureiro
#15. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
Ellen Hopkins
#16. Life is a tough journey, an educational process that takes us to the place of survival and to the place of growth and development.
Euginia Herlihy
#17. War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
#19. When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.
Clarice Lispector
#20. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein
#21. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#22. Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
Yvon Chouinard
#24. To survive in the race of life, you must have the strength and agility to stand the test of time".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#25. You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.
S.R. Crawford
#26. I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.
James Alison
#28. Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
Dean Koontz
#29. When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave - one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
Charles Eisenstein
#30. For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepower and laws.
James Luceno
#31. Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.
Rahm Emanuel
#32. There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren't even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn't changed. It had always been survival of the fittest.
Claire Merle
#33. It is one thing when the culture doesn't "get" adoption. What else could one expect when all of life is seen as the quest of "selfish genes" for survival? It is one thing when the culture doesn't "get" adoption and so speaks of buying a cat as "adopting" a pet.
Russell D. Moore
#34. My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.
Questlove
#35. There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
Bruce Lipton
#36. It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#38. Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization ...
Greg Bear
#40. The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
Deepak Chopra
#41. It may be that we're not seeing the wonder in life because all we're doing is wondering how we're going to survive life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#42. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.
Edward O. Wilson
#43. Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
Jim Butcher
#44. For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.
B.R. Ambedkar
#45. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
Rachel L. Schade
#46. The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.
Ray Davies
#47. So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all.
John Green
#48. Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.
Bryant McGill
#49. It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
Elizabeth Lesser
#50. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
Oscar Wilde
#51. Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror.
Vasily Grossman
#52. Welcome to the apocalypse. Where make-do is a motto and life seems wrong, out-of-place. Where the weak become strong because they have no other choice.
Caroline George
#53. Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species
Munia Khan
#54. Leadership is a Requirement for Survival and a Prerequisite for Success.
Noel DeJesus
#55. In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives ...
Stephen King
#56. Clearly we could devastate the world ... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands
David Attenborough
#57. I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#58. Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?
Rolf Potts
#59. As a pupil of wild things, I have come to understand that life must continue despite the cruelty of the climate. Lack of sunlight does not defeat the albino Indian pipe; scarcity of water does not destroy the creosote. Survival depends on evolution and evolution on a determined will to adapt. Over
Krista Schlyer
#60. I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
Joseph Heller
#62. The moment people move off land which has directly supported them, the necessities of life are removed from individual control. The things people could formerly produce for their survival must now be paid for.
Jerry Mander
#63. The world doesn't change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can't control fate, but I'm sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.
Caroline George
#64. For a kid in crisis, there is no "make it happen," only "survive today." Who am I to have the cojones to think my "critical questions" are the most important thing in this kid's life? I think of the times I was in crisis and failed to pay attention to the manila folders on my desk as an adult.
Dawn Casey-Rowe
#65. The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you.
Colleen Hoover
#67. The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' " ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it.
David Mitchell
#68. People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.
Wes Craven
#69. Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.
Lawrence Anthony
#70. The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.
Jim Trefethen
#71. Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.
Marjorie M. Liu
#72. Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.
John Green
#73. You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
Cinda Williams Chima
#74. The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.
Jerry Seinfeld
#75. Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.
Lucy Grealy
#76. Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.
Wallace Stegner
#79. All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
Charles Dickens
#80. They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.
Lawrence Anthony
#81. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.
Alfred Nestor
#82. Watching him getting ready to leave, Judge Arcadio thought that life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities for survival.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#83. 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
#84. If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.
Lara Biyuts
#86. The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost.
Girdhar Joshi
#87. Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.
Ken Hom
#89. I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty
no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.
Jim Fergus
#90. Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.
Jocelyn Murray
#91. All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
#92. Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.
Dalai Lama
#93. There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as to who came before him, what life was like a thousand years ago, and he will seek out answers for a hundred years or so, but humans' curiosity has always driven them to find answers.
Julie Kagawa
#94. The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.
Rod Coronado
#96. This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Herbert Spencer
#98. Train yourself. That is your only chance of survival. Train yourself not to be afraid of death and you will never lose hope.
Jessie Jasen
#99. Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance.
Bryant McGill
#100. It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.
Barbara Lee
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