Survival Quotes

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works cooperatively against common threats.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.