Top 100 Survivor Quotes
#1. I wasn't going to be the victim. I was going to be a survivor. And I would never let anyone get in the way of my happiness ever again.
M. Clarke
#2. Justice is for the victim. Vengeance is for the survivor.
Rachel Vincent
#3. When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
Pat Summitt
#4. All unemployed Jews are sent to labour camps in the countryside. A survivor remembered that "It was like a Russian winter. The snow lay metres deep on the tracks and froze over. To be there made one feel as though one was overwintering in Nova Zemlya."27
Geert Mak
#5. Scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.
Patricia Briggs
#6. It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.
Tom Spanbauer
#7. WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.
Linda Alfiori
#8. Everyone wants to be the survivor, but they seldom realize how very high the cost is.
B.G. Harlen
#9. You know what you are?" she said. "You're a survivor who has nothing to live for.
Adam Johnson
#10. Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.
Lance Armstrong
#11. I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch 'Survivor' every week.
Adam Scott
#13. Each survivor chooses how secrecy is going to fit into their healing. Some share with their immediate family, but not their childhood family and friends.
Jeanne McElvaney
#14. Westlemania is the Superbowl but each PPV is equally important. The big four (WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series) are always important to me but the themed events have been getting better each year. Each event has its own aura around it so it's very difficult to choose.
John Cena
#15. I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.
Jenna Morasca
#16. Survivor Series is something that was very surreal to me to be a part of, but now, I just want to do it again.
CM Punk
#17. A survivor reassesses odds continually and doesn't disrespect them.
Barry Eisler
#18. Dressed as a man, her horse unencumbered by anything but the bare necessities, she had the look of a survivor, a fighter, and he respected the hell our of her for it, especial when she slid the pistol our of one of the saddlebags and aimed it at him.
Alexandra Bracken
#19. I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.
Geraldine Ferraro
#20. We are all specialised forms of survivor. We lack what we fundamentally need and forge ahead regardless, hurriedly hiding our wounds, disguising our ineptitude, bluffing our way through our weaknesses.
Michel Faber
#21. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.
Jessica Mitford
#22. My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
Michael C. Hall
#23. The bar was manned, or should I say womanned by a skeletal heroin chic concentration camp survivor with an elaborate set of tattoos and an incredibly bizarre set of piercings. I swear, if women continue to insist on making their selves this unattractive I'm going to swear off sex permanently.
Randall Moore
#24. Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.
Seth Shostak
#25. As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.
Cedric Richmond
#26. If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show - the original Survivor.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#27. She thought herself weak, a victim of circumstance. What she didn't yet realize about herself, she was one of the bravest warriors he'd ever had the pleasure of knowing. Operation Time for Keeley to Recognize She was a Fucking Survivor was now underway. God help him.
Lora Ann
#28. I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.
Madonna Ciccone
#29. My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.
Kate Walsh
#30. You can't shoot... one by one everyone will gone... once and forever and in the end as for and one will be the survivor.
Deyth Banger
#31. Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
Eddie Bracken
#32. I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.'
Jenna Morasca
#33. Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.
George W. Bush
#34. My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
Jenna Blum
#35. Justice is for the victim." Kick. "Vengeance is for the survivor.
Rachel Vincent
#36. I'm an 18-years thriver, I call myself, not a survivor, because I feel like I'm in thriving my life even better than I ever have, and I want to encourage other women that are going through this journey that here I am.
Olivia Newton-John
#37. Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
Jessica Simpson
#38. It's all a matter of perspective. Here's mine: I've been called a lot of things, but what I really am is a survivor - and while there are more than a few stupid Sirens, there are zero stupid survivors.
Kami Garcia
#39. It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.
Leslie Moonves
#40. I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
Carrie Fisher
#41. At his neck, hanging outside his clothing, Demoux wore a necklace that bore a small silver spear: the increasingly popular symbol of the Church of the Survivor. It seemed odd to her that the weapon that killed Kelsier would become the symbol of his followers.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. 'Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi.
Steve Nguyen
#43. I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor ...
I am one with myself.
I AM FREE!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#44. I do like reality TV. I've always liked 'Survivor' since season 1.
Heather Doerksen
#45. Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim
letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.
C.R. Strahan
#46. My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#47. A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
Natalie Wood
#48. For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.
John Barrasso
#49. I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.
Jenna Morasca
#50. The 'Survivor' community is very tight. I mean very tight.
Jenna Morasca
#51. I'm never going to give in. I'm never going to give up, and I will fight back with every breath I have.
- Dionne Warner, seven-time cancer survivor and subject of Never Leave Your Wingman
Deana J. Driver
#52. It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.
Joe Biden
#53. Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.
Lionel Richie
#54. The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
Claire Cameron
#55. The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious.
Josephine Tey
#56. I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
Uzo Aduba
#57. I'm a survivor. And I say this with so much pride I could burst into a million tiny pieces at your feet.
Trish Kaye Lleone
#58. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
Lynette Gould
#59. Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.
Cher
#60. I don't think 'Survivor' really changed me.
Ethan Zohn
#61. Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
James Denton
#63. I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
Keith Moon
#64. All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough
Ruskin Bond
#65. When you are playing 'Survivor', getting a shelter up immediately is the most important thing.
Jenna Morasca
#66. I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them.
Jenna Morasca
#68. In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.
Ismail Kadare
#69. In the uneven balance of life, I'd experienced love and loss. The loss challenged me to be strong, but it was the love that supported me when I was weak. I was a survivor.
Rebecca Donovan
#70. Lovers are like Siamese twins, two bodies with a single soul; but if one dies before the other, the survivor has a corpse to lug around.
Julian Barnes
#71. I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.
Mike Epps
#72. I was survivor of childhood sexual abuse in therapy for dissociated trauma memories.
Jeanne McElvaney
#73. I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.
Craig Venter
#74. Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.
Drew Barrymore
#76. You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable. - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner
Deana J. Driver
#77. We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
Gloria Steinem
#78. For every survivor there is also a rapist.
Janet Bode
#79. As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from "victim" to that of "advocate" and "survivor.
Don Easton
#80. I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.
Aida Turturro
#82. The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.
Alexander Suvorov
#83. I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.
Walter Mosley
#84. Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.
Jenna Morasca
#85. Do you think Team Rated RKO can win tonight AND at Survivor Series?
Maria Kanellis
#86. What a beautiful woman. She moved with grace, she was entirely feminine, and yet, she possessed incredible inner strength. She's a survivor.
Jan Moran
#87. I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
Amy Tan
#88. A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.
Alexandra Robbins
#89. I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time ...
Jeff Probst
#90. You aren't broken, Will. You are a survivor.
Kristy Love
#91. You know the bad thing about being a survivor ... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
Carrie Fisher
#92. In the game of 'Survivor,' there is no time for regrets.
Jenna Morasca
#93. I'm a survivor, and I can handle anything. I'm very confident about that.
Aaliyah
#94. The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
Warren Farrell
#95. I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#96. We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded; unless you're a cancer survivor! Then we love people reminding us!
Chris Geiger
#97. In the case of "A Rape on Campus," the risk of being taken in was compounded by Ms. Erdely's approach. She was steered to "Jackie," as she referred to the University of Virginia student in question, by a party with a vested interest: a rape survivor and sexual assault activist on campus.
Anonymous
#99. So when life breaks you pick up the pieces and keep moving. Otherwise, you stay broken. And instead of being a survivor, you're always a victim.
Elizabeth Hunter
#100. Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.
Anousheh Ansari
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