"My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration."

Survival, Success, Truth, Life, Power

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration."

Exlpore more Survival quotes

"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Hiding, Size, Environment

"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Wolf, Danger, Teeth, Predator

"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Survival, Sanity, Struggle, Life

"There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Survival, Love, Respect, Truth, Happiness

"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Adaptation, Comparison, Wisdom

"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Survival, Evolution, Glory, Poor

"Sometimes the very things that we're expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let's die so that we can live."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Survival, Life, Death, Faith, Truth

"There is time for a fight and a time for a flight, knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Survival, Fight, Flight, Choice, Time

"Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Survival, Danger, Abuse, Humor, Life

"Adaptation is the key to survival."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Survival, Adaptation, Key, Life

Explore more quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God's majesty."

Humility

"I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places."

Decision

"Doing life without God is not doing life."

Faith

"In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light."

Light

"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."

Hope

"If Christmas is a universally comprehensive and keenly clandestine rescue mission strategically crafted by God Himself eons before the rescue was necessary, it would naturally follow that if it is doomed to anything, it is doomed to incontestable success."

Christmas

"If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not."

Truth

"Love in the service of self is greed in disguise."

Love

"If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released."

Reflection

"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."

Family