Survival Quotes
1564 quotes by 1079 authors
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
— Desi Arnaz
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I…
— Margaret Atwood
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called…
— Michael Badnarik
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival.…
— Gary Bauer
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It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in…
— Melody Beattie
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
— Ingrid Bergman
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
— Wendell Berry
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
— Theodor Adorno
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support…
— Theodore Bikel
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The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
— Tony Blair
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For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
— John Bolton
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