Top 70 Survival Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Not Giving Up Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

2. “Two is one, one is none.”

— Navy SEALs

3. “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Resilience Quotes

4. “Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.”

— Jack London

5. “Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.”

— Hayley Williams

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Grit Quotes, Depression Quotes

6. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

— George R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

7. “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Struggle Quotes

8. “I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Space Quotes

9. “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

— G. Michael Hopf

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Warrior Quotes, Grit Quotes, Challenges Quotes

10. “Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.”

— Regina Brett

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Positive Short Quotes, Mind Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

11. “If you risk nothing, you gain nothing.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Winning Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

12. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Frida Kahlo

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Being Strong Quotes, Adversity Quotes

13. “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

14. “You have to go through the worst to get to the best.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Adversity Quotes

15. “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Failure Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

16. “To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don’t give up, don’t give in. There’s always an answer to everything.”

— Louis Zamperini

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Hope

17. “I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Adversity Quotes

18. “You adapt, evolve, compete or die.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Adaptability Quotes, Competition Quotes

19. “If I can take it, I can make it.”

— Louis Zamperini

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Athlete Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Hero Quotes

20. “There are two options: adapt or die.”

— Andy Grove

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Adaptability Quotes, Competition Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

21. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Stay Strong Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes

22. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Strong Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

23. “I’d made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.”

— Louis Zamperini

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Struggle Quotes

24. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”

— Steve Maraboli

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Mental Strength Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Resilience Quotes

25. “No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Artist Quotes, Different Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

26. “I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.”

— Bess Myerson

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

27. “Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Men, Fear Quotes, Adventure Quotes

28. “Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don’t give up.”

— Imran Khan

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Giving Up Quotes, Healing Quotes, Hero Quotes

29. “I am stronger than fear.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Mental Strength Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Strong Women Quotes

30. “If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’”

— Rudyard Kipling

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

31. “What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.”

— David Attenborough

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Environment Quotes, Future Quotes, Nature Quotes

32. “Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Individuality Quotes

33. “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

— W. Edwards Deming

34. “All that matters is that you keep going no matter what.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Giving Up Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Momentum Quotes

35. “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

— Ernest Shackleton

Also featured in: Obstacles Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Problem-Solving Quotes, Adventure Quotes

36. “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Suffering Quotes

37. “When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Never Give Up Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Quotes About Giving

38. “Don’t let the hard days win.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

39. “Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.”

— Jessica Hagedorn

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes

40. “Life will find a way.”

— Michael Crichton

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes

41. “There’s always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.”

— Liz Murray

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Determination Quotes

42. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Never Give Up Quotes, Wellness Quotes

43. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Self-Love Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Caring Quotes

44. “What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Past Quotes

45. “Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”

— Samuel Butler

46. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Depression Quotes

47. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”

— H. G. Wells

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes

48. “Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Environment Quotes, Fate Quotes

49. “Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you’ve endured. They’re a treasure map to the deep self.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Recovery Quotes, Healing Quotes, Hurt Quotes

50. “No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don’t worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Quotes About Hope