Browsing Topic Best Surviving Quotes

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company’s owners are slim at best.

…man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

Surviving, that’s my plan.

The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they’re just realizing what’s happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that’s useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel’s success in surviving strategic inflection points.

I don’t know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we’ll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn’t seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn’t know it then.

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it’s popular. What I’m saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

My image of what a city should be – the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It’s a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I’ve never lost a match.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don’t do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.

I believe I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I’ve found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

We know that we need to explore desire in fiction – many say that the only way a story exists is that a character feels a strong desire – and nature is the place where creatures act on their desires in the most pure way imaginable, so maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I’m interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.

President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He’ll never have the military’s full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he’s been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

Democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time. Most people’s daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don’t have time to really study [crucial] issues.

It’s our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else’s. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century.