Top 100 Quotes About Survival
#1. It's a game changer, not a game ender.
Joe Teti
#2. In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.
Terry Tempest Williams
#3. This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.
Charles Darwin
#4. Knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.
Max Brooks
#5. Love ... is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.
Colette
#6. The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
George Ball
#7. You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.
Cody Lundin
#8. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.
David Anthony Durham
#9. Fighting for survival in a shattered world ... the truth is her only hope.
Veronica Roth
#10. The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.
Hugo Chavez
#11. Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You've got to determine what you are willing to pay for success.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#12. Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.
Brian Swimme
#13. Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.
Richard Branson
#14. I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
Anne Tyler
#15. I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories.
Nicholas Trandahl
#16. Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.
Gloria Steinem
#17. Earning trust and being trustworthy constantly is critical to the survival of your brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#18. If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
Flannery O'Connor
#19. Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc - where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.
Amanda Ripley
#20. A guy who is equipped mentally and educationally doesn't need a confidence check. He is positioned and prepared to GO. Are you?
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#21. Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.
Peter Watts
#22. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#23. 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
#24. You may only get one chance at something ... and that requires confidence in your ability.
Joe Teti
#26. Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.
Mark Leiren-Young
#27. Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.
Omer Bartov
#28. The weather, the plants, the animals, and our human survival are all inextricably linked. The natural elements were at war with one another because we abused our ecosystem. Abused our atmosphere. Abused our animals. Abused our fellow man.
Tahereh Mafi
#29. I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It's alive and it's right and it's what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I'm dying, I will be completely fucking alive.
Glenn Rockowitz
#30. If you survive, you've got to live with the guilt, and that's more difficult than looking someone in the eye and pulling the trigger. Trust me. I've done both.
Sara Grant
#31. Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug
#32. Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
Peter Benchley
#33. The struggle for existence never gets easier. However well a species may adapt to its environment, it can never relax, because its competitors and its enemies are also adapting to their niches. Survival is a zero-sum game.
Matt Ridley
#34. Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
Rachel Dolezal
#35. Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
Neale Donald Walsch
#36. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
Jane Smiley
#38. 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
#39. The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences.
Adam Fenner
#40. Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?
Joseph Conrad
#41. Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.
Laura Hillenbrand
#42. 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
#43. I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.
Jen Calonita
#44. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
Daniel Goleman
#45. I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
Alexandra Bracken
#46. 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
#47. The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.
Denis Dutton
#48. The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.
Tag Cavello
#49. You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
#50. The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake.
Al Gore
#51. It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.
Kristina Schroder
#52. I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.
Cody Lundin
#53. If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?
Peter Singer
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Being able to escape to a dreamland was a survival instinct for me.
Mia Sheridan
#57. We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.
Aaron B. Powell
#58. Survival in Egypt begins with a yes to God's call on your life.
Max Lucado
#59. Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival,
Ari Whitten
#60. Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#61. I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.
Christina Hendricks
#62. Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.
Daniel Kahneman
#63. It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking
#64. The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
James J. Gibson
#65. Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
Sebastian Junger
#66. Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
Charlie Chaplin
#68. Not having children is seen as supremely selfish, as though the people having children were selflessly sacrificing themselves in a valiant attempt to ensure the survival of our endangered species and fill up this vast and underpopulated island of ours.
Geoff Dyer
#71. Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
Naveen Jain
#72. In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
Nadine Gordimer
#73. Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
Ludwig Von Mises
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#78. The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.
Susan Ee
#79. A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
Maria Montessori
#80. With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.
David A. Freedman
#82. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#83. 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
#85. While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
David Perlmutter
#86. It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.
Andrew Levkoff
#87. Fear is the venom impact of predator sting,
causing prey not to be focus on the survival.
Toba Beta
#88. 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
#89. What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
Terry Brooks
#90. America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
Nancy Pearcey
#91. But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.
Rob Thomas
#93. Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival.
Eraldo Banovac
#94. We can spend billions of dollars bailing out a fiscally irresponsible nation that doesn't want to work hard or be financially intelligent, but to propose that same amount to ensure the survival of our species is actually up for debate?
Bill Hargenrader
#95. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.
George Schaller
#96. Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.
Danitra Vance
#97. Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival.
Max Brooks
#98. And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.
Richard Branson
#99. Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
Brigham Young
#100. An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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