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  • Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

  • To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.

  • The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

  • My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

  • The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.

    Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
  • Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

  • My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

    Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015
  • For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster
  • [It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.

    Loyalty   Baby   Nice  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • 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

    Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015
  • The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry and like a network of computers it all contributes in some way to when it's individually needed.

    "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

    "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.
  • There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

    John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett
  • I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will.

  • The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.

  • But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.

    War   Future   Men  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.144, Penguin
  • In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

  • Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

    Girl   Pain   Self Harm  
  • I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way

    Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.324, Macmillan
  • Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

    Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.190, Macmillan
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