Survival Quotes

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

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.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

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 of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.