Self Preservation Quotes

91 Self Preservation quotes by 83 unique authors

By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry… — Charlaine Harris
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — J.R.R. Tolkien
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to… — Chogyam Trungpa
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until… — Winston Churchill
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
Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard… — Megan Whalen Turner
It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and… — Kate Morton
Do you have no sense of self-preservation? — Nalini Singh
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've… — Nancy Werlin
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist,… — Melina Marchetta
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a… — Dennis Lehane
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest person to him,… — Julia Quinn
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives… — Viktor E. Frankl
Stop the pain.” – Tory “You know I can’t.” – Acheron “Fine. But next time you’re the one who’s doing labor duty. I get to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder… — Holly Black
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too… — Karen Marie Moning
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are… — Rachel Vincent
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself… — Margaret Atwood
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact. — Abbi Glines
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with… — Isak Dinesen
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. — Baruch Spinoza
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. — Jodi Picoult
Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take… — Veronica Roth

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