Survival Quotes - Page 2

• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, 4th Of July, Safety

  sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). “A present for an apprentice [by sir J. Barnard]. To which is added, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] by a citizen of London [T. Tegg].”, p.288

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Believe, Struggle

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• Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

  Barry N. Malzberg

  Rivers, Coins, Matter

  Barry N. Malzberg (2007). “Breakfast in the Ruins”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Art, Creativity, Sparks

  "Ground Truthing". Interview with Devon Fredericksen, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

  John Maynard Smith

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

  George Santayana

  Hands, Here I Am, Grace

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• We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Suffering, Desert

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.

  Margaret Mead

  Age, Quality, Survivor

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• Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Pain, Fighting, Expression

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.86, Penguin

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• Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

  Florence King

  Mean, Simple, People

  Florence King (1993). “Southern Ladies & Gentlemen”, p.155, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  Cat, Tools, Use

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• To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

  Audre Lorde

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

  David Eagleman

  Gambling, Addiction, Drug

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.165, Vintage

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• Organizations aren't loyal; they can't be. They have to be nimble, they have to change. That means everybody in every organization will have one eye on his or her own brand, and the other eye on the organization of which he or she is a part. And the first loyalty - self-loyalty - is becoming more and more dominant, simply as a survival strategy. I'm in no way blaming anyone here; this is just simply a fact of life.

  Robert Reich

  Loyalty, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.

  Edward Hallowell

  People, Brain, Atmosphere

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a luxury in human history because lives were shorter, but with our increased longevity we have to figure out what to DO with all our time, and to pace ourselves to achieve things that we want. Hobbes might have been right when he originally wrote that life is 'nasty, poor, brutish and short', but today we are AWASH with time.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Thinking, Long, Today

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Dictators are not strategists in the way I normally use that term. All the dictator cares about is survival. That means constantly worrying about the tactical response, "What do I do today, tonight, tomorrow morning, to stay alive?" Vladimir Putin doesn't care what happens a year or five years from now. He just cares about staying in the game. That is all he needs to survive.

  Garry Kasparov

  Morning, Mean, Worry

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Love is the only engine of survival

  Leonard Cohen

  Love Is, Engines

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

  Lili Taylor

  Art, Needs, Stories

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• there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

  Stephen King

  Optimistic, Long, Optimism

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• You have got to control your fear, get in control of your emotions.

  Joe Teti

  Emotion

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• It's a recipe for disaster.

  Cody Lundin

  Recipes, Disaster

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• You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

  Joe Teti

  Thinking, Curves, Way

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• If I don't have s*** in my pocket now, you'll have s*** in your pants later.

  Cody Lundin

  Pockets, Pants, Ifs

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