Survival Instinct Quotes

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. ~ Barbara Demick

The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith gives us strength.
Grace gives us power.
Hope gives us anchor. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is. ~ Ymatruz

Hope is a happy spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

should I respect the work of the creator, of the gardener, or should I accept the survival instinct with which nature endowed this plant, which I now call a 'weed'? ~ Paulo Coelho

Hope is the anchor of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be. ~ Patricia Briggs

We need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. ~ Theodore Sturgeon

Why do people kill others just like them with such ferocity simply because they worship a different god? What harm were they doing? People suffer in these wars and dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions even lose their lives. Whatever happened to the survival instinct? One could just about understand the violent battle for wealth or territory but how are we supposed to understand the battle for a belief? ~ Vadim Zeland

I let you die. To save myself, I let you die.
That is the danger in keeping company with survivors. ~ Leigh Bardugo

In situation, we must adapt, survive and strive. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The beauty of existence is my joy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear is a survival instinct, after all. When there's no longer a chance of survival, there should no longer be a reason for fear to exist. ~ Joe Kita

There is ALWAYS going to be a way out, or in, or around... you need to train your brain to know and to believe that. Because when you do, you're not going to stop until you find that way. Some people think about fate. I'm not like that. I'm not like, "this is my fate." Instead, I say, "this life is my gift and I have my tools with me and there is ALWAYS going to be a way. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Dare to conquer your soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

It's all in the reflexes. ~ "Jack Burton" (Kurt Russell), Movie Big Trouble In Little China

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. ~ Rollo May

Don't cry for them to be happy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a firm believer that the path of discomfort offers us so much more than comfort ever has. Discomfort may very well be the most powerful change agent we have in our arsenal for becoming all that we can be - - and achieving the kind of success in life that we want. - Marc Schoen, PH.D, Your Survival Instinct is Killing You (2013) ~ E. Oberle

Hope is strength of soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe. ~ Zoe Bell

Our need to knock celebrities is ... Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic. ~ Peaches Geldof

The anchor of my life is the grace of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things ... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts. ~ Michael Moore

But somehow, without me noticing it happening, I became someone who after every failure, rejection and mistake can pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again. That life skill, the first one you need, came from my mother. So thanks to her, despite the rest of my upbringing and my awkward personality, I've survived. ~ Viv Albertine

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

The suit came up, and Holston thought that maybe people went along with it because they couldn't believe it was happening. None of it was real enough to rebel against. The animal part of his mind wasn't made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of. ~ Hugh Howey

The lucky ones died in the blasts. They were spared the fate of starvation, cannibalism, rape and slaughter. Where a man could be killed over half-eaten can of corn. ~ Joe Reyes

May you discover your sacred-self. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct. ~ Tony Robbins

Every challenge, I have faced, dares me to seek a higher power. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Technology has just passed our survival instinct, and the country is spinning on a stationary existential axis of make-believe importance: We text about a Tweet of a YouTube video posted on Facebook with a clip of Glee about not texting that we just texted about. Instead of actual life, we're now living an air-guitar version of life. ~ Tim Dorsey

She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic tradition she ad been since the age of twelve and a half "bogeret l'reshut nafsha"
an adult wit authority over her own soul. The Torah taught, Choose life. And so, rather than die of pride, Sofia Mendes sold what she had to sell, and she survived. ~ Mary Doria Russell

Being able to escape to a dreamland was a survival instinct for me. ~ Mia Sheridan

The survival instinct, however, is self-conscious in human beings; and when it consciously motivates our behavior, it defines us as radically self-centered creatures. Our self-centered drive to survive is a universal reality rooted in our biology. It was this aspect of our humanity that led our ancient religious mythmakers to try to describe its origins. "Original sin" was their answer to the question of the source of our universal human self-centeredness. No one understood that survival was an involuntary biological drive in life. Instead it was understood as the result of sinfulness and of disobedience. Atonement theology was born as a way to address this universal flaw in our understanding of human life. ~ John Shelby Spong

Human beings are very skilled at pretending they are not what they are, and ignoring what is inside them. This includes ignoring their natural instincts, their primal instincts, because they have this notion that they are evolving faster than other life, have evolved further, and are therefore superior. Take racism for example. As abhorrent as people may consider it, human beings are essentially tribal, and racism is simply a survival instinct embedded deep inside us, born from thousands of years of survival and experience. ~ Robert Black

His red eyes swung in my direction. Without a second glance, he released the dead man's body. It hit the ground with a loud thump, but I couldn't bring myself to look at him. He was already dead, but even if he wasn't, there wasn't a thing in this world I could do for him. My death was waiting in those red eyes as well, if I didn't figure out how to save myself in the next few seconds. ~ Rose Wynters

I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I've heard that most drowning victims can't calm down. They have to impose their will against every survival instinct to stop flailing and let themselves feel like they're drowning. It takes an infinite amount of trust to count on someone else to save you. Raffe must have enormous willpower because he immediately stops splashing. He ~ Susan Ee

The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can endure all things by grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The ability to step aside from the rest of the world has given the Gypsies a lot of survival skills to match their really dark sense of humour. The Gypsies are survivors ~ Karl Wiggins

Hope is an anchor for the soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Amazing what humans could do to one another when their survival instinct kicked in. ~ Jason M. Hough

God is our refuge in times of affliction. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years. ~ Joe Reyes

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations ... A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive
and nowhere else!
and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race ...
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege. ~ Piers Anthony

You have to be mentally prepared to handle any challenge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Choices, Choices, Choices!
Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't become tough by just wishing it. You become tough by being hit so many times by people's, and especially life's blows--that you eventually learn how to avoid the blows, and most importantly be more strategic about survival.

So, if you being "hit" Left, East and Center today, trust me when I say that: "thank God for the training. ~ Jacent Mary Mpalyenkana

Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

The power of patient is the greatest survival skills. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm glad you still have your survival instinct."

"We've all got something." I lift my fingertips to the exposed skin on my face. It's colder than the night sea. Cupping my hands, I blow into them, let my breath warm my nose and cheeks. "I apparently still have a face, which is good."

Holden vaults up onto the wooden platform and I step up after him. "That is good," he says, pulling me in close. He lifts his gloved hands to my cheeks. "After all, this is one of my favorite faces."

I scrunch my lips into a pretend pout. "One of?"

He grins. "Well, you know. I'm a sucker for the classics. Helen of Troy, the Mona Lisa, that - "

"Hey. The Mona Lisa isn't even hot." I give him a little shove away from me, toward the edge of the platform.

"Disagree," Holden says. "She's beautiful in her own way. That mischievous smile, those dark, soulful eyes, the way she - "

"Fine, whatever." I cross my arms. "But I insist on being ranked above her."

"Okay, okay," Holden says. "Yours can be my second-favorite face . . . right after that guy from The Scream." He pulls me in close again.

"You're such an ass," I say, as our lips touch.

Holden laughs. "My girl Mona Lisa would never be so rude. ~ Paula Stokes

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story. ~ John Branch

I don't even want to win, but I think there's this survival instinct inside all of us that clicks on when we see other people failing. It makes me feel gross and incredibly human. ~ Julie Murphy

In any situation, there is hope. Don't give! Be strong! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.. ~ Oriana Fallaci

It's hard to think when someone's trying to kill you. We human beings aren't wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite ideas of which survival strategies it prefers to embrace, and those are generally limited to "rip threat to pieces" or "run like hell." No thinking need be involved, as far as our instincts are concerned.
Our instincts were a long time in the making, though, and the threats that can come after us now have outpaced them. You can't outrun a bullet, and you don't go hand-to-hand with a gunman unless you're certain you are about to die anyway. Speed and mindless aggression weren't going to keep me alive. ~ Jim Butcher

Through all life changes , God is in control. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ~ Criss Jami

Because you have no survival instinct, Grace. You're like a tank, you just chug along< thinking nothing can stop you, until you meet up with a bigger tank. Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history?" mom seemed to warm her theory. " he couldhave a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight. he could be almost normal and then suddenly go slasher. I mean, you know I've never told you what to do with your life before now. But what if-I told you not to see him?"
I hadn't been expecting that. My voice was brittle. "I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your abiblity to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option."
Mom threw her hands up as if trying to stop the Grace-tank from running over her. "Okay. Fine. Just be careful, okay? Whatever. I'm going to get a drink."
And just like that her parental engergies were expendede. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Let go of the pain. Dwell on positive thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You only have to view life in a positive way. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

After 15 years living in Paris, I felt myself growing old and stagnant - similar to stagnant water sitting in a bowl; cats have a survival instinct not to drink this water. They can sense when it's old and may be carrying air-borne germs. After 15 years in Paris, I no longer felt drinkable. ~ Roman Payne

The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L'instinct de survie - Prouve qu'on est en vie.) ~ Charles De Leusse

You can survive life. Be strong. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So, despite the fact that my survival instinct was hollering like a drunk town crier, I started to accept that if I wanted to find out more about my father, I would have to go out and hobnob with the zombies. ~ Lia Habel

You can survive any situation with strength of spirit and soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't know if cats understand what their owners say, but they do have a strong survival instinct. ~ Manel Loureiro

You can overcome any situation with positive attitude. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Parks is amazed. Appalled. Even a little bit disgusted. He's used to dealing with people who have at least some sort of survival instinct, and he knows that Justineau isn't stupid. Back at the base, he thought of her as the best of Caldwell's exasperating little coterie, and while that isn't saying much, he actually liked and respected her. He still does. But ~ M.R. Carey

She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her.
She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem. ~ David Levithan

The fear of death is presumably a survival instinct, Tin Win later thought. It must be an essential part of us, of every living creature. At the same time, we must transcend it to take our leave in peace. He found this an irresolvable contradiction. ~ Jan-Philipp Sendker

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive. ~ Auliq Ice

One of the hardest things you'll ever do is give yourself permission to be in pain of any kind. There's a reason we have survival instincts, so that we don't die. That goes for humans, animals (redundant, I know), all the fishes in the sea, everyone. Some researchers even say that even plants feel pain and a cucumber will scream when you cut it. (And some others say that's crap because they have no brain or central nervous system.) The point is, we're all wusses. And emotional pain is the worst. ~ Anne Clendening

Never doubt your existence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival. ~ Henry Fairlie

Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early! ~ Rod Stewart

The orientation of man toward survival, to the exclusion of other considerations, has made society a grim place to live in, and for the most part human society has been a place where, though man has survived physically he has died emotionally. ~ Anonymous

Listen, sweetheart. Don't be a hero. [ ... ] If they actually go through with this hare-brained notion and send you into the fighting, there will come a time when you'll have a choice between staying in your trench and crawling out of it to save a buddy. Or maybe you'll have had enough of getting shelled and decide you just have to run out there and shoot someone. That's what I mean. When that moment comes, you stay down. You keep your head down. You hug the ground. ~ Michael Grant

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up. ~ Cody Lundin

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem. ~ Thomas Keating

Much of the gay white movement seeks to be included in the american dream and is angered when they do not receive the standard white male privileges, misnamed as "american democracy". Often, white gay men are working not to change the system. This is one the reasons why the gay male movement is as white as it is. Black gay men recognize, again by the facts of survival, that being Black, they are not going to be included in the same way. ~ Audre Lorde

What would you prefer? Life in a maximum-security prison or trapped in Jurassic Park?"
"Do I have a social standing in this prison?"
"No. You're just an average Joe."
"Then I guess I have to go with Jurassic Park."
"Why?"
"Well, I'll have constant fresh air, for a start, and also if I'm going to be anyone's prey, I'm going to be the prey of an animal that's acting out of instinct rather than psychopathy ... You?"
"If you're in Jurassic Park, I'm in Jurassic Park. ~ Samantha Young

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings. ~ Apostolos Doxiadis

Being hungry is the hardest thing, & to this day I have prayers of gratitude for the Black Panthers, who made Breakfast for Children a thing that schools should do. We qualified for free lunch & breakfast, & without them I am almost sure we wouldn't have made it out of childhood alive despite my hardworking parents. ~ Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house, talking through the walls. There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens. ~ David Levithan

Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable need to hunt the poor animal for reasons other than survival. I am sure the book will help to ensure that the hunting of otters will never return to this country-and I hope other lands will follow this example ... A fascinating and illuminating book. ~ Virginia McKenna

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ~ Thorstein Veblen

I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets, ~ Stephen Hawking

Fear is a survival response. Fear makes us run, it makes us leap, it can make us act superhuman. But we need somewhere to run to. Without that, the fear is only paralyzing. So the real trick, the only hope, really, is to allow the terror of an unlivable future to be balanced and soothed by the prospect of building something much better than many of us have previously dared hope. ~ Naomi Klein