Suzy Kassem Quotes

We all survive more than we think we can.

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is the members of the species that are most adaptive to change.

Don’t let them see you weak.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

Only the strong survive.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Throw me to the wolves and I shall return leading the pack.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

The world is the house of the strong.

That which yields is not always weak.

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.