Best 1668 quotes in «survival quotes» category

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

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.

There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

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

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

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

The solution to the nation's problems, depends on the true American achievers. It's people like you, playing by the rules and celebrating and continuing to remind people of the traditions and institutions that made this country great, who can re-create a society that is great once more. It's only by doing the right thing that this country is going to fix itself and survive.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

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.

The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

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.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor.

The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.

The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel. We are committed to Israel's survival and security. The United States for a quarter of a century has had an excellent relationship with the State of Israel. We have cooperated in many, many fields - in your security, in the well-being of the Middle East, and in leading what we all hope is a lasting peace throughout the world.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

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

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

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

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.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

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

This is a way you can learn about someone through very stressful situations. That is when a person is either gonna shine or falter.

This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown or you're hosed.

This is looking tasty.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

This is teamwork; this is what it's all about.

This place has a one, two knockout punch.

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

This suntan lotion acts as an accelerator and an extender, meaning that this fire will burn brighter and longer.

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

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

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

Three fires is the international distress signal.