Survival Quotes - Page 11

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

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.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

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.

Love is the only engine of survival

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.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.

If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.