Survival Sayings and Quotes
Sometimes you don’t know what you are made of until faced with a dire situation to overcome. Celebrate your resilience with the collection of wise and insightful survival quotes below.
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with, a man is what he makes himself.
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.
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In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
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Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.
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Survival is nothing more than recovery.
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
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The faster you can signal for rescue, the faster you get out of that situation.
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You don't know if you're going to be rescued in a day or a month; gotta prepare for the long haul; gotta make the place your home.
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
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Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.
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Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.
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Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
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In truth, we exist and survive, not because of the ego, but in spite of it.
