Home / Topics / Survival Quotes

Survival Quotes

Browse 3207 quotes about Survival.

Survival Quotes

“Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.”

Humans Spiritual Motivation Spirituality Games Names Animal Compassion Creativity Survival Curiosity Unconditional Love Irrelevant Unconditional Human Animal Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Beings

Author:Peter Shepherd

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.”

Littles Done Action Choices Strong Compassion Team Football Survival Guilt League Nfl Mutual Awards Lowest Affirmative Action Affirmative Inspirational Team

Author:J. C. Watts

“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”

Humans Religious Business Compassion Buddhism Essentials Survival Luxury Stability Compassionate Kindness And Compassion Goodness And Kindness Human Kindness Human Compassion Mental Peace Mental Stability

Author:Dalai Lama

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.”

Love Is Compassion Source Survival Roots And Love Buddhist Internals Internal Peace

Author:Dalai Lama

“We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.”

World Needs Helping Action Together Artist Voice Community Powerful Compassion Roles Creativity Issues Share Planets Survival Teamwork Our Planet

Author:Natasha Mayers

“I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.”

Believe Humans Compassion Survival Bases

Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.”

Needs Humans Water Powerful Compassion Mankind Blessing Survival Dimensions Basic Needs Power Of Nature

Author:Vikas Khanna

“Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.”

Life May Compassion Clear Modern Keys Survival Traits Altruism Ruthless Robbers Darwinism Robber Baron

Author:Carl Sagan

“Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been depleted, the human population will disappear. . . . Project you imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think, the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for the earth.”

“We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.”

Humans Wells Age Compassion Known Survival Resilience Luxury Well Being

Author:Joan Halifax

“I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Government Compassion Century Worship Survival Generosity Fascists No Hope Don't Change Money And Power

Author:Patch Adams

“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Self Spirit Education Quality Compassion Survival Tasks Regard Curiosity Pursuit Denial Sensible Tenacity Readiness Self-denial Inspirational Education Enterprising Undefeatable

Author:Kurt Hahn

“I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days”

“Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.”

Compassion Keys Survival

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.”

Humans Whole Together Order Race Compassion Vision Planets Citizens Survival Human Race

Author:Debbie Ford

“Are you afraid?” he asked moving his chair directly in front of her. “Should I be?” she answered getting her courage back. She stood about to dart away, but Vaselik stopped her, took her hands and studied them intently.”

Love Fiction Compassion Strength Drama Survival Trials Enlightening Jewish Literature

Book:Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

Source: Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle