Best 1668 quotes in «survival quotes» category

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

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

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

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

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

For me, dance is a nutrient, you know, it's something that I need, it's something like, you know, the air we breath, the food we eat. These are things that we need for survival. For me, dance is a nutrient. It's my nourishment.

Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

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

For the first time in history, we have the chance to change the path of a celestial body. Let's realize what we're talking about here. We would be slightly changing the mechanics of our solar system to enhance our survival. That is gigantic!

For us to get to those huts and no one's home, it's going to be a kick to the nuts.

For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to the prophets and stored at least one year's supply of survival food.

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.

Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.

Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?

Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that survival instinct by constantly asking ourselves, ‘How can I use my life’s energy to benefit all living beings?

Getting lost in a place like this you can almost guarantee that you aren't going to make it out here.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

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

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

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.

Here's the bottom line, we're either going or not.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Hiking up a hill is an ass kicker, going downhill is a little easier.

His first instinct was to help me, not sit like a deer in headlights, I now know that Matt isn't one to panic

Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming! Party On! A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead! Party On! My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river! Party On!

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.