Top 87 Quotes About Survival Hope
#1. Fighting for survival in a shattered world ... the truth is her only hope.
Veronica Roth
#2. 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
#3. My only hope for survival lies in the knowledge that you are somewhere in this world, under the same sky, the same sun, the same stars.
Amy A. Bartol
#4. Scars, whether physical or emotional, could be not just a representation of survival but also a story of hope.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#6. We never surrendered. We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.
Manel Loureiro
#7. Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive.
Dave Pelzer
#8. But I'd worked in IT long enough to know: Hope is a terrible survival trait. My methods were data collection, comparisons of probabilities, and collections of "what if.
Anonymous
#9. The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior
Kenneth E. Boulding
#11. Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
Theodore Sturgeon
#12. No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.
Alfred Lansing
#13. In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Stanislav Grof
#14. 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
#16. The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.
James Alan Gardner
#17. I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.
Billy Graham
#18. I couldn't comprehend why she still hadn't stopped him because it's clearly every mother's responsibility to protect her children. After all, that's the trust that bonds a mother and her child together, forever
Veronika Gasparyan
#19. If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.
John Mellencamp
#20. A belief in the immortality of the human soul, of the survival of the person beyond death, is one of the most important expressions of human hope.
Benedict Groeschel
#21. Sometimes even now I entertain the hope that Love lives in the world independently of us, but when I am most courageous, I believe that love was born within the human heart, and that the survival of love in the world, as well as its ultimate triumph, is entirely our responsibility.
Catherine M. Wilson
#22. Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part rested on the hope that he would keep the country out of war.
Robert Dallek
#23. There is grace for survival; I survived two years without a regular salary.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. 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
#27. That's what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild.
Randolph D. Calverhall
#28. Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.
Jocelyn Murray
#30. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
Rachel L. Schade
#31. I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.
Patch Adams
#33. Mind led body
to the edge of the precipice.
They stared in desire
at the naked abyss.
If you love me, said mind,
take that step into silence.
If you love me, said body,
turn and exist.
Anne Stevenson
#34. The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.
Elizabeth Taylor
#38. His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but "pulling the chain," as it was called, was his only option.
Alex Kershaw
#39. This storm we are in concerns me greatly. Even in the midst of the storm I know the Son shines from behind the clouds and will eventually break through completely. There is hope. Let's impact this change together.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#40. But hey this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope was to delay the pain.
Micheal Grant
#41. A young man needs to know where he stands in the world, not just as a matter of basic human dignity but as determinants in the ways and means of survival, and what you might hope to gain by application of honest effort -
Ben Fountain
#42. It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is
Veronika Gasparyan
#43. Faith gives us strength.
Grace gives us power.
Hope gives us anchor.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#44. He pulled me back to him, stroking my hair as if to calm me. Tears sprang to my eyes and melted into the water around me. I didn't want to die. But people died every day. What hope I had for heaven's existence faded away, and I realized I would simply disappear.
Kirby Howell
#45. How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.
Don Feder
#46. Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.
Norman O. Brown
#47. Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.
David Byrne
#48. As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.
C. JoyBell C.
#49. Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
Michael Shermer
#52. I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell out of here.
Joe Teti
#53. Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.
Denis Johnson
#55. I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#56. We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.
Lewis Thomas
#57. People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don't tell them the full truth; maybe you tell them lies. But what is this world? A lie in itself.
Savi Sharma
#58. 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
#60. I don't need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me.
Anne L. Parks
#61. At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
Stanislav Grof
#62. 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
#63. 'Falling Skies' is not just about aliens attacking. It's also about humanity, survival, hope and the determination to rebuild our world, starting from pretty much nothing.
Maxim Knight
#64. 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
#65. The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair
Rohinton Mistry
#67. I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#68. He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.
Sarah Winter
#69. Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there's hope and love in this world, there will always be the living.
Carrie Ryan
#71. The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth's final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.
Rick Yancey
#73. Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue.
Fanny Kelly
#75. 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
#77. Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.
Louis Zamperini
#79. The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.
Wess Stafford
#80. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
#83. 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
#84. You will face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you each time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.
Rachel L. Schade
#86. Sweet, loveable, and with every click revealing a new surprise, 'Botanicula' creates both a wonderful world where bees and twigs play in the universe and sets up a daring story of a group of unlikely heroes taking on a tree's last hope of survival.
Rob Manuel
#87. Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.
Ogden Nash
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