Survival Quotes

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

~ Andrea Bocelli

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

~ Russel Honore

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.

~ Norman Borlaug

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.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

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.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

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

~ Rollo May

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

~ Aristotle

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically.

~ Molly Ivins

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.

~ Paul Kalanithi

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

~ George Reisman

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

~ Kay Bailey Hutchison

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

~ Robert Gottlieb

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

~ Edward Everett Hale

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.

~ Koo Stark

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

~ John F. Kennedy

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

~ Nick Nolte

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

~ Rogier Van Der Heide

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.

~ William F. Buckley

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

~ Anderson Cooper

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

~ Shari Arison

Success is survival.

~ Leonard Cohen

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

~ Cameron Sinclair

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

~ Bear Grylls

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

~ W. Edwards Deming

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

~ Bear Grylls

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

~ Noam Chomsky

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration even in wartime are gradually ruining Europe. That's why I believe Brexit is good for British freedom, political autonomy, and the survival of democratic capitalism.

~ Lawrence Kudlow

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau