Survival Quotes

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

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

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

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

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

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

The quality of a survival kit is determined how much it can help you when you need to sleep. If you can sleep well at night, you have it made. It should also assist you in meeting your water needs.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

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.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

If you don't have your game-face on, you're going to go home either to a hospital or to a casket.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.