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self preservation
«As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.»
Author: Diogenes
(Founder, Philosopher)
| About:
Needs
| Keywords:
ardent, former, instruct, latter, preservation, self preservation
«We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.»
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
do by, impulses, in general, organized, preservation, ruled, self preservation
«God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| About:
God,
Military,
Prayer,
Soldiers,
War
| Keywords:
bat, besets, besetting, conflicts, fathers, guidance, inspiring, preservation, self preservation, strengthen, weakening
«When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
consciousness, heroic, preservation, primarily, self preservation, transformation, transformations, undergo
«Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.»
«Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
done for, dreamed, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, in truth, neglects, preservation, principalities, principality, republics, self-destruction, self preservation
«Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
emotional, everyday life, fund, funding, mostly, moved, occupied, outlet, outlets, preservation, seeks, self preservation, surplus, surpluses, The Creation
«We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
ears, in one ear, justice, preservation, safely, scale, scaled, scaling, self preservation, The Wolf, wolf
«A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
citizen, doubtless, higher law, obligation, observance, observances, of necessity, preservation, saving, self preservation, strict, stricter, strictest
«Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Action,
Foresight,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
clear-thinking, constitute, counsel, emergency, features, foresight, gong, gongs, jarring, jars, preservation, self preservation, strikes, The Emergency, unwillingness