Quotes About Survival

We don't know what we're capable of until we have to survive. Each of us is stronger than we know - the key is learning to tap that power at will.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

I have learned the power of surviving.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

Sweetie, in our world, fair's got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It's why we're all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.

I'd been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind.

Another thread snaps loose from my heart, the pain precise and acute. I embrace it, because it reminds me I'm still here. I'm alive. I'm empowered.

Viktor Frankl the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think something he didn't want to think

I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.

Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.This is war between good people for their respective survival.Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.

Watch. Anyone who turns away will be considered weak. And the weak shall die. - Adrian

No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl... a woman who will fight to survive.

Ann Aguirre, Enclave