Quotes About Survival

What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.

I don't think you're going to start a riot, but until you prove you have more survival instincts than a seriously stressed out lemming, you'll stay at the bar.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

Success is outliving your failures

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Survival is triumph enough.

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.