Quotes About Survival

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

When asked how long I've worked here, I replied, "since the day they threatened to fire me."

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

The object of war is to survive it.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.