Self Preservation Quotes
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Self Preservation Quotes & Sayings
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Beauty should never lower its guard around Appetite.
— Shay Caroline
Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
— Margaret Anderson
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
— Thomas Jefferson
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
— Agatha Christie
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Self-preservation was more important than revenge, and
— Henning Mankell
The one thing that is braver each day than I is my sense of self-preservation It moves not, and stands not, unless it is driven by something
— Elliott Colla
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
— Judith Lewis Herman
The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all?
— Hope Jahren
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.
— Herve Falciani
That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.
— C.L. Allen
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
— Julian Barnes
The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.
— Thomas Jefferson
I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.
— Jacques Sandulescu
Those who cannot dance, should not dance.
— Cian Beirdd
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
— Andrew Marvell
We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.
— A.J. Darkholme
We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.
— Keith Houghton
Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.
— A.J. Darkholme
Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
— Nalini Singh
Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.
— Bei Dao
If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I'm not on the journey in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.
— Penelope Fitzgerald
Self-preservation is an enemy of love.
— Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
This passion because it is so strong, must destroy in order to be contained within the limits of self-preservation.
— Sabina Spielrein
There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.
— Mariska Hargitay
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
— Baruch Spinoza
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear brings out the basest instincts," writes British political scientist Sue Goss, "and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation."16
— Diana Butler Bass
Marine training is essentially a psychological battle against the instinct for self-preservation.
— Nathaniel Fick
Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
— Ani DiFranco
But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.
— Rosamond Lehmann
That form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves ...
— Marcel Proust
Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.
— Jayne Lockwood
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.
— A.J. Darkholme
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
— Georgette Heyer
Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
— Danielle De Niese
Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.
— Penelope Douglas
There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.
— Alyson Richman
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
— Albert Einstein
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
— Evelyn Waugh
She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.
— Catherynne M Valente
But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.
— Franz Kafka
Love is not a purpose, it's a paradox; it's not an end-goal, it's an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.
— A.J. Darkholme
Concerning the blindness and bigotry of people, the pleasures of hatred rise superior even to the instinct of self-preservation.
— Isaac Asimov
For his sake, I'm glad he disappeared. I don't blame him. I know it was an act of self-preservation.
— Hannah Hart
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
— Alexander Hamilton
See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
— Oli Anderson
Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.
— Ron Brackin
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
— D.H. Lawrence
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for.
— Martha Wells
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
— Samuel Butler
If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law.
— Ragnar Redbeard
I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I ever want to use it.
— Rachel Caine
Fuckin' A ... hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.
— J.R. Ward
The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.
— Daleen Van Tonder
the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license,
— Fulton J. Sheen
Instantaneous forgiveness can bring longstanding self-preservation, not to mention a cheaper Ralph's bill on Rolaids.
— Ace Antonio Hall
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
— Trinny Woodall
Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.
— Anne McCaffrey
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
— Joseph Campbell
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!
— Sandra Ross
Self-preservation is an art and I a masterpiece.
— Sonya Vatomsky
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
— Abbi Glines
A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct
— Sunday Adelaja
The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
— Jose Saramago
The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life is an addiction and self-preservation is its sweetest high
— Taylor P. Davidson
