survive quotes

“A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.”

— Terry Pratchett

“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. ”

— John Lennon

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.”

— Martin Luther King

“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”

— Dalai Lama

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

— Dalai Lama

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”

— Og Mandino

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

— Dean Acheson

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. ”

— Robert Redford

“Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

— Maya Angelou

“So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.”

— Marilyn Manson

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”

— Blaise Pascal

“From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.”

— Pope John Paul II

“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”

— Ayn Rand

“Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.”

— Ayn Rand

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

— Wayne Dyer

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

— Charles Darwin

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

— Bill Cosby

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

— Bill Cosby

“Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.”

— Ingrid Bergman

“I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.”

— David Bowie

survive quotes

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“The good ideas will survive. ”

“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.”

“A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.”

“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.”

“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. ”

“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”

“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. ”

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

“Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. ”

“Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. ”

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

“So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.”

“My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.”

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”

“From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.”

“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”

“Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.”

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

“Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.”