Preservation Quotes

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

— Jim Rohn

“Silence was the key to self-preservation.”

— Laura Wiess

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

— Thomas Jefferson

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

— Nalini Singh

“A man with keen preservation”

— Jinx Schwartz

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

— Alexander Hamilton

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

— Julian Barnes

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

— Aldo Leopold

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

— Cesar Chavez

“When it comes to age, it’s all about the quality of the preservation,”

— Donna McDonald

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

— James Altucher

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

— Lord Acton

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

— Ronald Reagan

“Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension…

— Sri Aurobindo

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success…

— Tobias Smollett

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.'…

— John Thune

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

— Sam Houston

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.…

— Richard Dawkins

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

— Boris Sidis

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

— Georgette Heyer

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not…

— Milton Friedman

I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors…

— David O. McKay

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror…

— Angela Carter

The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace…

— Alexander Hamilton

The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation…

— Ted Cruz

As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of…

— James Madison

The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the…

— Cecil Roth

I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then…

— Lord Chesterfield

“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been…

— Wendell Berry

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his…

— Sigmund Freud

“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.…

— Rachel Carson

I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to…

— Wilford Woodruff

The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but…

— Elisabeth Eaves

The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe…

— Ronald Reagan

The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a…

— Andrew S. Draper

“[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for…

— Bill Bryson