31+ Survival Quotes About Resilience And Courage (2023)

31+ Survival Quotes About Resilience And Courage (2023)

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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about survival that will inspire resilience, determination, and courage in hard times.


What Is Survival Sayings

1. “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water” – Frank Herbert

2. “Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying” – Bear Grylls

3. “Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we’re going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today” – Laurence Gonzales

4. “Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been” – Joan Rivers

5. “Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it” – Bear Grylls

6. “Survival means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow” – Lewis Thomas

7. “Survival… is an infinite capacity for suspicion” – John Le Carre

8. “Survival is the continuation of life or existence in the presence of or despite unusually difficult conditions” – Rainer Stahlberg

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Quotes About Fighting To Survive

9. “To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself” – George Orwell

10. “When you fight for survival, you don’t think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink” – Frank Lowy

11. “That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It’s such a powerful force” – Danny Boyle

12. “In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival” – Stanislav Grof

13. “There are all these moments you don’t think you will survive. And then you survive” – David Levithan

14. “The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It’s what humans and cockroaches are best at” – Susan Ee

15. “Surviving means being born over and over again” – Erica Jong

16. “Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down” – John Ridley


Short Quotes About Survival

17. “Survival is triumph enough” – Harry Crews

18. “Survival is nothing more than recovery” – Dianne Feinstein

19. “When you’re in survival mode, you numb yourself” – Clemantine Wamariya

20. “Survival depends on what you do, not what you think” – Rebecca McKinsey

21. “Part of surviving is being able to move on” – Alexandra Bracken

22. “Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival” – Martha Gellhorn

23. “Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live” – Steve McQueen

24. “We each survive in our own way” – Sarah J. Maas

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Quotes About Rules Of Survival

25. “There’s no such thing as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe” – Peter Watts

26. “The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor” – Claire Cameron

27. “The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability” – Charles Darwin

28. “The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena” – Bear Grylls

29. “Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes, and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win” – Bear Grylls

30. “Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away” – Yann Martel

31. “Rule of survival: Pack your own parachute” – T.L. Hakala

32. “Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention” – Salman Rushdie

33. “Only the strong survive, you gotta be strong, you gotta hold on” – Chris Hegedus


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