Quotes About Survival

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Only the strong survive.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.