Monday 1 May 2017

Survival Sayings and Quotes



A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with, a man is what he makes himself.

Alexander Graham Bell






Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Elie Wiesel





In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.    

Maya Angelou





In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Akiro Kurosawa





Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.    

Adlai Stevenson





All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.    

Joshua Nkomo





Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.    

Albert Einstein





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

Nikita Khrushchev





To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

George Orwell






Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.    

Richard M. Nixon






Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.

Charles Darwin





Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Dianne Feinstein





The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Jane Wagner





Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.    

Bill Cosby





In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Andrew Young





For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

Janet Morris





The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.    

Herman Melville





Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Theodosius Dobzhansky





The faster you can signal for rescue, the faster you get out of that situation.    

Joseph Teti





You don't know if you're going to be rescued in a day or a month; gotta prepare for the long haul; gotta make the place your home.

Matt Graham





The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.    

Horace Kephart





Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.    

Germaine Greer





Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.    

Thomas More





Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

John H. Johnson





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

Thomas Hobbes





And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.    

Andrew Carnegie





It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.    

Clarence Darrow





Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

Richard J. Davidson





Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.    

Alexander Hamilton





In truth, we exist and survive, not because of the ego, but in spite of it.    

David R. Hawkins




Surviving means being born over and over again.

Erica Jong





Only the strong survive.

Namibian Proverb





Rule of survival: Pack your own parachute.    

T.L. Hakala





Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill





We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill





Survival is triumph enough.

Harry Crews





Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama





It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller






Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.    

Sun Tzu





Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Robertson Davies





Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee





Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.    

Albert Einstein






Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.    

Andrew Marvell





We are survival machines -- robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Richard Dawkins





Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Frank Herbert





Survival often feels like an indignity.    

Guillermo Del Toro





In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

Tanith Lee





Survival ... is an infinite capacity for suspicion.    

John Le Carre





When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt





What does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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