Best Survival Sayings
1564 Survival quotes by 1029 unique authors
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you…
— James A. Baldwin
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The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production…
— Vandana Shiva
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world…
— Bill Frist
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Survival's the thing, isn't it?
— Janet Morris
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War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory…
— Sun Tzu
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as…
— Isaac Asimov
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Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far…
— Charlie Chaplin
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
— Doug Larson
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You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with…
— Winston Churchill
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But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or…
— Unknown Author
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
— Shirley Hufstedler
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed…
— Peter Drucker
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they…
— Walter Pater
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
— Oscar Wilde
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the…
— Winston Churchill
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.
— Chief Seattle
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
— Bertrand Russell
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Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
— Charles Lindbergh
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Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they…
— David Hackworth
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his…
— Norman Borlaug
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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing…
— Barry Commoner
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It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of…
— William J. Clinton
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