Survival Quotes - Page 2

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

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

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

Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence - a surprise.

...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

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

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

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

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.

Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.

What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes!

Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter," she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O'Hara, River of Dreams

nobody would know your story unless you survive❤ ❤

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.