50 Survival Quotes to Inspire You to Keep Going

Survival Quotes

What is survival for you? Surviving everyday life, surviving the wild? According to Wikipedia, survival is the technique that anyone uses to sustain life in any type of environment. Here are 50 Survival Quotes that can motivate you to survive.

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.” Sarah J. Maas

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” Albert Camus

“We could do it, you know. “What? “Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.” Suzanne Collins

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” Alan Alda

“We’ll never survive! “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.” William Goldman

“Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination’s dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.” Nancy Gibbs

“Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.” Cassandra Clare

“Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.” John Bytheway

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.” Susanna Kaysen

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” John Hope Franklin

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

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” Edward Abbey

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” Yann Martel

“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.” Austin O’Malley

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” Leon C. Megginson

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.” Laura Hillenbrand

“Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.” Reinhold Messner

“Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.” Steve Maraboli

“Survivors aren’t always the strongest; sometimes they’re the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” – Carrie Ryan

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” John Muir

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” Carl Sagan

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

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.” Edward Abbey

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” Ursula K. Le Guin

“I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I’m not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.” – Heidi Klum

“I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.” Walt Disney

“Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.” Melina Marchetta

“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.” – Isabel Allende

“Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.” Henry David Thoreau

“The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.” Michael Scott

“The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don’t think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.” – Frank Lowy

“Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we’re abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.” Betty White

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” Arthur C. Clarke

“In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you’re surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.” Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.” John Burroughs

“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.” Elizabeth Kostova

“Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

“Part of the beauty of wilderness schooling is that the overheads are very low. You want a classroom? Build a shelter from nature’s store. You want to eat? Forage for it.” Ben Fogle

“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.” Robertson Davies

“When you’re placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and ” – Alycia Debnam-Carey

“But part of surviving is being able to move on.” Alexandra Bracken

“The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.” – Mo Udall

“Fear is a part of life. It’s a warning mechanism. That’s all. It tells you when there’s danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.” Jim Butcher

“Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counterproductive to our survival.” – Jacque Fresco

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” Sherman Alexie

“Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.” – Leonardo DiCaprio

“Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?”

“In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.” – Andrew Young