Survival Quotes

You may only get one chance at something...and that requires confidence in your ability.

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

This is a way you can learn about someone through very stressful situations. That is when a person is either gonna shine or falter.

This is looking tasty.

Everyone knows the rules of three's, you can survive three weeks without food, but not in this environment.

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

Let's go Matt; we aren't strolling through Central Park here.

I have to take off my hat to Matt, he's trying crazy hard to get this fire started.

We cannibalized this bike as much as we could've.

This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown or you're hosed.

It drops down to a place I ain't going.

Putting us in risk is just plain stupid.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

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.

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

Cancer is everybody's cause.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

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.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.