Survival Quotes
The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.
What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.
I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.
...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.
And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.
Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.
If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?
Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.
We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.
Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.
Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.
Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.
Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.
And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.
Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.
It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.
The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain
Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.