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Quotes about Survival

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.
— Brother Andrew
Then, if the hull go down, there'll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight not seen very often beneath the sun!
— Herman Melville
There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air! There's orthodoxy!
— Herman Melville
Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
— Herman Melville
But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
— Herman Melville
There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).
— Abhijit Banerjee
Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?
— Seth Godin
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
— Seneca
A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit's great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.
— Sheila Walsh
Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.
— George Lucas
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
— Ayn Rand
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?
— Ayn Rand