Quotes About Self-preservation

Take care of yourself, because if you don't nobody else will.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Never give anyone the advantage of seeing you weak. One day they will use it against you.

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I've learned the best way to prevent your heart from getting broken, is to act like you don't have one.

Be careful while falling in love, see that the fall doesn't kill You.

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid

Play before you get Played, Leave Before You're Left!

A lot of men & women would rather stay single because they're tired of giving their everything and ending up with nothing.

Sometimes it's better to be alone cause no one can hurt you that way.

A lot of people would rather stay single because they're tired of giving their everything and ending up with nothing.

He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.

Everything you have told me is nothing but fear that the life they have built for themselves and always known will disappear if other people are given the same opportunities as themselves.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Bite them before they Bite you.

If I am not for myself who is for me?

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I wanted to be cold to him, so I turned on my heel and started to walk away.

Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.

After a while the desire of self-preservation gathered them into cities; but when they were gathered together, having no art of government, they evil intreated one another, and were again in process of dispersion and destruction. Zeus feared that the entire race would be exterminated, and so he sent Hermes to them, bearing reverence and justice to be the ordering principles of cities and the bonds of friendship and conciliation.

Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.

So you'll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you." "Well…yes.