Survival Quotes

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Cancer is not for sissies.

This is a warring universe. To survive here, one must know its ways.

I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.

The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

We can't move quickly. You move quick out here and you die quick.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

Where there is water, there are people.

Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

The same water that will kill you, drown you, give you hypothermia is the same water that will help you survive.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.