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Survival Quotes

For our basic survival, we depend on fundamental necessities like food, water and shelter. But in this age of ‘survival of the fittest’, it’s not just basic necessities we need but also a strong emotional intelligence which is necessary to fulfill our ambitions and achieve what we want. Some of the organizations even conduct survival skill classes just to teach individuals to encounter a dangerous situation in a better way. Go ahead; become more familiar about what survival is all about by reading some of the most popular quotations and sayings.

Thomas More

Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

Steven Spielberg

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Thomas Hobbes

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Dianne Feinstein

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

I grew up originally in Rochester. It was where I was born and a very tough neighbourhood with a lot of violence. I consider myself lucky. When I was aged 11, in 1998, Dad moved us to a suburban area from what was a ghetto area. It gave me a chance of survival.

Luck
Noam Chomsky

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Audre Lorde

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Tony Blair

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Winston Churchill

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.

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

Johnny Depp

Escapism is survival to me.

Stephen Hawking

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Mind Humor
Timothy Olyphant

My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Paulo Coelho

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Noam Chomsky

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Problems Wars Environment
Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Stephen Hawking

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen Hawking

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

Khalil Gibran

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Noam Chomsky

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.