74 Beautiful Survival Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing survival quotes and sayings.
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Short Survival Sayings
“I survived, but it’s not a happy ending.” —Tim O’Brien
“Escapism is survival to me.” —Johnny Depp
“Only the strong survive.” —Namibian Proverb
“Don’t work to survive. Work to create something that survives you.” —Unknown
“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.” —Patricia Cornwell
“Survival is nothing more than recovery.” —Dianne Feinstein
“A knifeless man is a lifeless man.” —Proverb
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” —Albert Camus
“Every day I run scared. That’s the only way I can stay ahead.” —John H. Johnson
“For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.” —Janet Morris
“Surviving means being born over and over again.” —Erica Jong
“If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.” —Megan Whalen Turner
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” —Carl Sagan
“Rule of survival: Pack your own parachute.” —T.L. Hakala
“Credibility is a basic survival tool.” —Rebecca Solnit
“Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.” —Steve Maraboli
“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.” —W. Edwards Deming
“Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.” —Janet Morris
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.” —Adlai Stevenson
“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.” —Aung San Suu Kyi
“People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.” —Patricia Briggs
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” —Frank Herbert
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” —Carl Sagan
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.” —Herbert Spencer
“I could survive for months, years, on a crush.” —Jenny Han
“Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.” —Alexander Hamilton
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” —W. Edwards Deming
“Survival … is an infinite capacity for suspicion.” —John Le Carre
“The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.” —Michael Scott
“Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.” —Doug Dillon
“A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.” —Mors Kochanski
“Survival often feels like an indignity.” —Unknown
“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” —Nikita Khrushchev
“Every day I run scared. That’s the only way I can stay ahead.” —John H. Johnson
“A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.” —Chris Cleave
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” —Dr.W.Edwards Deming
“Life is not surviving, life is for the living and loving.” —Unknown
Survival Sayings
“Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.” —Andrew Marvell
“Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” —Bear Grylls
“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.” —Robertson Davies
“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.” —Germaine Greer
“The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.” —Morris K. Udall
“Being strong is not an option for those who want to survive, it is a necessity.” —Terry Mark
“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.” —Winston Churchill
“Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.” —Rollo May
“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.” —Sarah J. Maas
“Survivors aren’t always the strongest; sometimes they’re the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” —Carrie Ryan
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” —B. F. Skinner
“Love shouldn’t feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.” —Unknown
“After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value.” —Arthur C. Clarke
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” —Dalai Lama
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.” —Hunter S. Thompson
“A relationship isn’t going to make me survive. It’s the cherry on top.” —Jennifer Aniston
“Challenges are life’s way of testing our desires and determinations to survive.” —Terry Mark
“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.” —George Orwell
“We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.” —Louis Cozolino
“Achievement should be the top most priority of your existence and the reason for your survival.” —Unknown
“Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.” —Dora Russell
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” —Winston Churchill
“When you’re in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.” —Samuel Fuller
“The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.” —M.F. Moonzajer
“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual’s instinct for self preservation.” —Albert Einstein
“The key to the survival is to never leave the door open to separate you from survival.” —Unknown
Top Ten Survival Sayings
Here you will find top ten survival sayings selected by our team.
- “If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” —Nikita Khrushchev
- “Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.” —Doug Dillon
- “Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.” —Alexander Hamilton
- “Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really.Just keep trying.” —Bear Grylls
- “Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.” —Robertson Davies
- “The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.” —Morris K. Udall
- “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” —Dalai Lama
- “Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual’s instinct for self preservation.” —Albert Einstein
- “Don’t work to survive. Work to create something that survives you.” —Unknown
- “Being strong is not an option for those who want to survive, it is a necessity.” —Terry Mark
