Survival Quotes

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Ingredients, International Women's Day

  "At Lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Cherno Jobatey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

  Charles Darwin

  Important, Adaptability, Factors

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• We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

  Virginia Satir

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  "Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World" by Carolyn Rosenblatt, www.forbes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Simple, Secret, Adaptability

  Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media

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  A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

  Margaret Atwood

  Broken Heart, Lost Love, Divorce

  Quoted in Time, 19 Mar. 1973

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• Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Keys, Creative

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• Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

  Frank Herbert

  Water, Swim, Strange

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.272, Penguin

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• Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hands, Forever, Cards

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• Survival is your strength not your shame.

  T. S. Eliot

  Shame

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• 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

  Fear, War, Greatest Victory

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Life, Inspiring, Workout

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  "Deming: The Way We Knew Him". Book by Frank Voehl, February 28, 1995.

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• It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Butterfly, Dinosaurs, Bees

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.266, Feminist Press at CUNY

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Kindness, Cancer

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

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

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophical, Awareness

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• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  M. H. Abrams

  Long, Humanity, Artistic

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Faith, Religious

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• Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

  Billy Corgan

  Live Life, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

  Andy Dick

  Pain, Thinking, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose.

  Lil' Kim

  Reality, Shoes, Imagine

  Song: Lil' Drummer Boy, Album: The Notorious K.I.M., 2000

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• How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.

  Don Feder

  War, Winning, Principles

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• I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

  Deidre Hall

  Secret, Everyday, Cameras

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