Survival Quotations

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

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

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

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

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

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.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

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

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

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

Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.