Survival Quotes

• When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Progress
  • Groups

• 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 survival.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Technology
  • Survival
  • Struggles

• The survival of love depends on the management of change.

  

  Ari Kiev
  • Love
  • Change
  • Management

• If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

  

  William James
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fighting

• To me it was so natural that companies should seek their own survival. I had seen nothing else in my life. Companies struggle to keep going and to grow, for as long as possible.

  

  Arie de Geus
  • Natural
  • Survival
  • Companies

• Survival is not enough.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Survival
  • Not Enough

• Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Nature
  • Survival

• What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Mistake

• By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Challenges

• Capitalism is the key to survival.

  

  Andrew Joseph Galambos
  • Survival
  • Key
  • Capitalism

• Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Survival
  • Instincts

• Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Humor
  • Survival
  • Roles

• I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Faith
  • Sharing
  • Valuing

• Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Thinking
  • Survival
  • Rabbits

• Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give...

  

  Han Nolan
  • Life
  • Survival

• The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Week
  • Survival

• And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • People
  • World
  • Natural

• To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Enemy
  • Memories
  • Sister

• It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Humans
  • Individual
  • Groups

• I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Survival
  • Animals
  • Fitters

• The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Money
  • Management
  • Prosperity

• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Mind

• This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.

  

  Daniel Schultz
  • Helping
  • Medical
  • Pregnancy

• When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.

  

  Charles Galton Darwin
  • Quality
  • Humanity
  • Values

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