Top 100 Quotes About Survive
#1. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
Michael Bassey
#2. I do admire the new breed of fictional female PI's. The ones who'll survive a throttling, a kidnapping, a punch in the kidneys from a Mafia goon and then wind up the evening making love to a helicopter pilot. In the helicopter. I think I need more time at the gym.
Cynthia Lawrence
#3. The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.
Oliver Sacks
#4. Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
J.D. Salinger
#5. Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb? ... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?
Laini Taylor
#6. There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
Seth Godin
#7. It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.
Anthony D. Williams
#8. Even where the soil was most corrupt, the willow found a way to survive.
Joelle Charbonneau
#9. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another.
Virginia Woolf
#10. Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#12. There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#13. Pain and suffering
Is inevitable in this world
Yet we choose to survive.
I'm not scared of anyone anymore
And I can say
I've learned all I can from mice
Be a lion when you talk to me.
Monique Koll
#14. And then he came, and pulled her petals off one by one, forcing her to surround herself with thorns to survive. But he missed one petal. And she guards it with a tiger's ferocity.
Sara Wolf
#15. Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.
W.C. Fields
#16. I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.
Thalia
#17. I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.
Rie Rasmussen
#18. One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
Gloria Gaynor
#19. If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know.
Evan Currie
#20. My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.
Arthur Tress
#21. Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.
Aminatta Forna
#22. Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another.
Tony Judt
#23. Traditional ways to deal with information
reading, listening, writing, talking
are painfully slow in comparison to "viewing the big picture." Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus.
Kathryn Alesandrini
#24. People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#25. Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.
Gloria Steinem
#26. You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
Frederick Buechner
#27. Your path will diverge for a while, but do not let that worry you. You have known difficulty before, but you will survive and thrive.
Joanne Guidoccio
#29. A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique. and, if it reveals. a girl, they'll abort her. If it reveals the baby is a boy, they'll celebrate.
Steven W. Mosher
#30. There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?
Cynthia Kenyon
#31. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon - and yet they will always survive.
George Orwell
#32. ...the natural force, the core of the struggle to exist is the desire to not just survive, but thrive. And to thrive is to feed on victims, ever more victims...
Steven Erikson
#33. GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT ... GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED ... THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE IS THAT WE HAVE TO FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO SURVIVE
Bernard Lietaer
#34. A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
Oriana Fallaci
#36. The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it
Robert Redford
#38. It did not matter whether he thought she was in mortal danger or simply falling, certain to survive. She fell and he followed..
Kelley Armstrong
#39. We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.
Oren Lyons
#40. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.
DeiAmor Verus
#41. You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you can never know what's really in her heart ... that, I feel, is how the goddess survived centuries of history and hatred.
Dianne Sylvan
#42. In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.
In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.
We define it as interplanomics.
Toba Beta
#43. She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.
Anne Perry
#44. We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
Livy
#45. Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.
Stephen King
#46. As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Noam Chomsky
#47. Oh, that I do know ... Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
Suzanne Collins
#48. But in reality, when faced with death and the great unknown that came after, my survival instinct snatched wildly at whatever lifeline was offered. I didn't want to die. Even if it meant becoming something I loathed, my nature was, first and always, to survive.
Julie Kagawa
#49. Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.
Sanjo Jendayi
#50. I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.
Sonam Kapoor
#51. Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
Alma Gluck
#52. There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves.
- Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun
Alexandra May
#53. It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, and its will to survive is utterly broken, when its children are taken from it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#54. Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman
Kyle Cassidy
#55. To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#56. We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.
Tupac Shakur
#57. Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.
Macklemore
#58. Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
Brad Pitt
#59. You know what I've seen? Is that people who have gone through unfair, horrific experiences, is that they have this will, and when they get support, a chance, they can not only survive, they can thrive.
Olivia
#60. Your ability to survive depends on your attitude
Ping Fu
#61. What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.
Alice Hoffman
#63. If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#64. Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.
Chinua Achebe
#65. A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them ... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.
Dianne Feinstein
#66. And I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
Patrick Ness
#67. I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.
Josh Pais
#68. I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.
Sarah Polley
#69. Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
#70. She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen
Sondra Torres
#71. Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
Bruce Lipton
#72. What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#73. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove
#74. China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#75. For modern man, survival meant mental change. The stubborn died as martyrs; the fanatic and the philosopher perished in the face of sudden change. To survive now one had to be pliable; one had to adjust to new codes and ideals and morals. The mind had to change.
William Mulvihill
#76. It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.
Maurice Sendak
#77. Art is aesthetic communication of the soul - in fact, it's the best of that communication - and taken in its entirety has formed a body of work to stand alongside Science and Religion as one of the three great constructs of culture to aid the individual in his or her struggle to survive in Nature.
Anthony Marais
#78. Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.
Alan Gratz
#79. I think I could survive a week without eating.
Megan Fox
#80. Triage on a battlefield (where the word originated in the Napoleonic Wars) came down to three choices: Those that don't need help right now, those that can survive if they get help right now and those that are probably going to die whether they get help or not.
John Ringo
#81. You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.
Sarah J. Maas
#82. That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.
Marc Maron
#83. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
Brene Brown
#85. I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
Dan Hill
#86. I hurt all the damn time because my stupid heart has decided for one reason or another that it can't survive without being next to yours. -Chase
Rachel Van Dyken
#87. The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
Bob Newhart
#88. In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.
Scott Clifton
#89. A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
E. J. Dionne
#90. I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
Tom Hanks
#91. You realize the importance of what you have when you survive the realization of what you don't.
Jacelyn Rye
#92. Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.
Rachel Caine
#93. Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.
Brian Herbert
#94. A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.
Paul Bloom
#95. People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
Hugh Laurie
#96. And what do you do in times of crisis, Gin?" Grayson asked. I stared at him. "I survive.
Jennifer Estep
#97. I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don't even realize that while you can walk around with clear lungs, other people are wearing oxygen masks just to survive.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#98. Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission.
Siobhan Davis
#99. People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
Erma Bombeck
