Self Preservation Quotes
Self Preservation Quote of the day
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.
Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!
I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.
I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are you right now?
But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul is to be killed, in an act of true love, by the one who loves me most.
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
She's Devine.She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that's what made her so magically beautiful.
The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.
Where's your sense of adventure?It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi.-Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn
That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.
Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.
Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.