Quotes about Survival

I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

As Bill Plotkin, a wise guide, puts it, many of us learn to do our "survival dance," but we never get to our actual "sacred dance.

No civilization has ever survived unless the elders saw it their duty to pass on gifts of Spirit to the young ones.

We are glad when someone survives, and that surely took some courage and effort. But what are you going to do with your now resurrected life? That is the heroic question.

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.