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In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. — Jerry Seinfeld

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have. — Richard Bach

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. — Tahir Shah

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. — Richard Adams

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival. — Tad Williams

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing. — James Clavell

Your soul is strong to survive the situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival! — Leslie Feinberg

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint. — Henry Kissinger

Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win? — John Scalzi

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. — Joseph Heller

I wanted to survive - not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable. — Julian Barnes

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. — Samuel Fuller

The survival of love depends on the management of change. — Ari Kiev

I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By — Dave Pelzer

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival. — Daniel Goleman

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. — Joyce Carol Oates

The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West. — George Lincoln Rockwell

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. — Rebecca Solnit

Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive. — Jeffrey Gitomer

The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Toni donates 15% of her royalties from EDGE OF SURVIVAL to diabetes research - to find out why, read the book! — Toni Anderson

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. — Alfred Lansing

Why should he be spared?'
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared. — Catherynne M Valente

Hope is strength of soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist. — Douglas Brinkley

Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don't have to. — James Hubbard

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them. — Henry V. O'Neil

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. — Heinz Pagels

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain. — Jay Parini

Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival. — Congressman X

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival. — Christine Feehan

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival. — Elie Tahari

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. — Frank Herbert

Survival is a growth strategy. — Ian Hogarth

Move with a purpose dude. — Joe Teti

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. — Dean Koontz

Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? — Tom Stoppard

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches. — Andre Leon Talley

You know what, I'll suffer in silence. — Joe Teti

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival. — Shirley Hufstedler

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. — Carlos P. Romulo

Survival isn't all there is to life — Sunday Adelaja

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself. — Lawrence Hill

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death. — Peter Milligan

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest — Thabo Mbeki

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. — Robert A. Heinlein

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs. — Bill Nye

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes. — Rick Yancey

Her whole system was wired to monitor his survival. She needed him to live. He'd nearly died, and everything inside her was short-circuiting. — Cassandra Clare

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. — Susanna Kaysen

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value. — Ashley Montagu

There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully. — Jennie Allen

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. — Jane Wagner

We have to have more consideration for people who have lesser means than we do. It is a problem of survival. — Walter Munk

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy. — Angelica Hopes

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Imagine if you were performing at your full potential, the lives you would change - including yours. Just imagine... — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them. — Donna Lynn Hope

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. — Anita Roddick

True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. — Robert Graves

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival. — Jessica Hagedorn

Survival requires guts and instinct. — Toba Beta

Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement. — Amelie Nothomb

You have the strength to survive any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle. — Jennifer Lawrence

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival. — Audre Lorde

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows. — Talib Kweli

We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest. — Toba Beta

Survival is your strength not your shame. — T. S. Eliot

I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation. — Jaggi Vasudev

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. — Albert Camus

Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's. — Paolo Bacigalupi

How do you achieve excellence? 1. Mindset 2. Discipline 3. Commitment 4. Consistency — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink. — Frank Lowy

I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it. — Joe Teti

Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand. — Neil Turok

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills. — Sheila Ballantyne

-We're criminals, Farley. We believe in money-and survival. — Victoria Aveyard

Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most. — Kevin James Breaux

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all. — Sandra Chami Kassis

The human species' foremost task and unshakable duty is survival. — Carlos J. Cortes

A Warrior, A Winner has no fear. His only objective is to change the atmosphere, because he knows that then he controls the outcome. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Surviving makes other people's tears unbearable. You might drown in them. — Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The fight for survival is the fight — Rocky Graziano

If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks. — Carrie Ryan

Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts. — Mary Balogh

It was up to daughters to figure out survival by any means possible. She — Kiersten White

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. — Michael Scott

A well trained person needs only a knife to survive. — Mors Kochanski

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. — C.S. Lewis