"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."

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"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."

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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Survival, Hunger, Struggle, Life

"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Survival, Uncertainty, Journey, Fear, Desperation

"Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!"

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Survival, Death, Emotion, Life

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Survival, Happiness, Brilliant, Work

"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

Stephen King, American Author

Survival, Education, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Survival, Endurance, Life, Strength

"If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Survival, World, Achievement, Hope

"Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.''We take a beatin' all the time.''I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Survival, Community, Hope, Time

"They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Survival, Rest, Truth, Companionship

"Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this,' Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. 'Our stomachs are graveyards."

Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist

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"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."

Money

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."

Work

"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."

Ability

"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

Approval

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

Man

"The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."

Man

"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."

Family

"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."

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"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."

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"There is little success where there is little laughter."

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