Self preservation Quotes

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.”

— A.J. Darkholme

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

— Samuel Butler

“If a bridge cannot be built, stop trying to cross.”

— Michael Palmero

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

— Margaret Anderson

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

— Julian Barnes

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

— Alexander Hamilton

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

“But a surprising number of elected officials have told us that they can see the danger themselves, but cannot say so for…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

— David Levithan

“I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I…

— Rachel Caine

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

— Bei Dao

We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation.

— Sam Levinson

“She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears…

— Catherynne M. Valente

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take…

— Diogenes

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

— Rosamond Lehmann

“Forgiveness is never condoning the terrible act; it is severing hatred's tumour bloodline for self-preservation. Only by refusing this amputation does the…

— Stewart Stafford

Stop the pain.” – Tory “You know I can’t.” – Acheron “Fine. But next time you’re the one who’s doing labor duty.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The question asked by MKUltra experimenters was: “Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our…

— Orit Badouk Epstein

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

— George Santayana

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we stop thinking primarily about ourselves, of our wants, our image and our own self-preservation, we undergo a transformation of truly…

— José N. Harris

“Just when had I become so self-absorbed? I was a form of self-preservation, I realized now; I had resolved that...I could survive…

— Melanie Benjamin

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic…

— Melina Marchetta

“This is not to say that one should not be angered at an injustice or speak out against whatever violates one’s security.…

— Anonymous

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his…

— Walpola Rahula

Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first…

— Ross Douthat

A common excuse for self-preservation through disobedience is offense. There is a false sense of self-protection in harboring an offense. It keeps…

— John Bevere

“You can care about new things and new people and new beginnings, and until you are dead in the ground, you are…

— Jen Hatmaker

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its…

— Albert J. Nock

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“I’m now much less of an asset to the company than I could be. I keep my head down and for self-preservation…

— Gary Chapman

We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears.…

— Albert Einstein

“4 Times to Get Tough . . . 1. Self-Respect—You don’t have to take everything on the chin and lose the respect…

— Susan C. Young

“The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost. And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What I can do is the only limit of what I may do. Because we are gregarious we live in society, and…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had…

— Ashim Shanker

“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are…

— C.S. Lewis

“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very…

— Ashim Shanker