Quotes About Survival

#1. Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

Robert Holden

#2. The more often you act in these unhealthy ways, the more you teach your brain that what is simply a habit (a learned behavior) is essential to your survival.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#3. Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Solomon Short

#4. There is grace for survival in any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Carl Sagan

#6. The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must.

David James Duncan

#7. I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

Naomi Watts

#8. Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

Aldis Hodge

#9. Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.

Andrew Barrett

#10. Survival isn't all there is to life

Sunday Adelaja

#11. She understood him with the knowing and not-knowing that comes of being a child. When you focus on your parent as if they are the center of the earth, that thing on which your survival depends, only later do you realize their flaws, their scars, and their weaknesses.

Scott Cawthon

#12. 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

#13. You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.

Philip Jose Farmer

#14. Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

Jonathan Franzen

#15. 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

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

Grace Paley

#17. The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.

Bill Gates

#18. Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.

Raphael Zernoff

#19. I realize that death and survival are both extremes of selfishness.

Andrew Smith

#20. Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

Peter Milligan

#21. Most people are preoccupied with survival in all its subtle forms, and so they reflect primarily fear, anger, and a desire for gain. They have not learned that the state of lovingness is the most powerful of all survival tools.

David R. Hawkins

#22. Happiness is tied to survival. We feel as if we are failing if we aren't happy,

Tarryn Fisher

#23. 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

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

Vanna Bonta

#25. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except to be able to grow in rows

Doug Larson

#26. tattooed on Kirsten's arm, "Survival is insufficient," is from Star Trek: Voyager, episode 122, which aired for the first time in September 1999 and was written by Ronald D. Moore.

Emily St. John Mandel

#27. Life is usually loved more than our most sacred love. In that knowledge lies the beginning of our cruelty and of our survival.

Josephine Hart

#28. It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

Lily Cole

#29. Our bodies are a commodity. Sex is our currency. Every day we fight for survival."
Jeri Estes Stilettos and Steel

Jeri Estes

#30. The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Stanislav Grof

#31. For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

N. Scott Momaday

#32. Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

Carl Sagan

#33. Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

Randy Alcorn

#34. When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'

Joel A. Barker

#35. Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Lily Tomlin

#36. Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

Rebecca West

#37. 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

#38. To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Ayn Rand

#39. I believe that there are dark and difficult days ahead, and you won't be playing for an increase in company dividens - you will be playing for the survival of a nation, and if you fail, it will mean the end of the world you know. You will not suffer alone -

Wilbur Smith

#40. The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.

Mors Kochanski

#41. She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Barbara Kingsolver

#42. Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Paulo Coelho

#43. There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.

Patricia Briggs

#44. The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

Ed Seykota

#45. Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars - for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family.

Stanley Weintraub

#46. He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was.

Richard Flanagan

#47. The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Mo Udall

#48. Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.

Liu Cixin

#49. 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

#50. Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

Marian Wright Edelman

#51. By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

Albert Marrin

#52. We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills."
"Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express.

Janet Evanovich

#53. Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment ... and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Eliot Porter

#54. Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.

Marine Le Pen

#55. On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. Money is key to survival. Love is key to happiness.

Nadair Desmar

#57. Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

Daniel Goleman

#58. When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

Maya Angelou

#59. This is the thing I fight. This is the monster I must defeat. I fear that I have taken too long. Already, so much destruction has occurred that I fear for mankind's survival. Is this truly the end of the world, as many of the philosophers predict?

Brandon Sanderson

#60. It (friendship) has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

#61. Direct and easy communications - freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense - has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Walt Disney Company

#62. 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

#63. I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.

Ben Richards

#64. Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Billy Cannon

#65. All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Christian Lous Lange

#66. Personal motivations to live are known to sometimes influence survival.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#67. Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

Robert A. Heinlein

#68. Physical beauty or sexual attraction in a woman was not a criterion in deciding, strengthening, or the survival of such relationships of these villagers.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#69. Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Robert Nozick

#70. The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

L. Ron Hubbard

#71. As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

Richard Dawkins

#72. The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

Karl Popper

#73. The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

Richard Powers

#74. The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

Suzy Kassem

#75. I'm not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

David Byrne

#76. 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

#77. Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

Adrienne Rich

#78. My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louise Leakey

#79. Survival is the least of my desires.

Dorothy Allison

#80. It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#81. 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

#82. Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Noam Chomsky

#83. Survival and sexuality were linked in ways I'd never appreciated until now. He

Deborah Harkness

#84. Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

Dan Fogelberg

#85. Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

Jonas Salk

#86. The alien girl - she called herself Dorothy - was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying.

Gregory Maguire

#87. Over the years I've learned that investing in other people's success doesn't just make them more likely to enjoy working with me. It also improves my own chances of survival and success.

Chris Hadfield

#88. 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. Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

Mal Fletcher

#90. It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

William J. Clinton

#91. Prior to the Industrial Age and during the long Agri-cultural Age life was a matter of survival and the concept of 'happiness' was superfluous, but with the industrial age came 'leisure time' and thus happiness was something one had 'time' to pursue".

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#92. We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.

Louis Cozolino

#93. Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

Ted Allen

#94. According to the mate, there were three main jobs that needed to be done to ensure their survival.

Gordon Korman

#95. We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival.

Sarah Castille

#96. At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Michael Crichton

#97. The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.

Ingrid Newkirk

#98. I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.

Rachel Reiland

#99. Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Scott McCloud

#100. It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate's competency in numerate matters. Numeracy

Garrett Hardin