This collection holds 126 survivors quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Gennady Golovkin, Roxie Roker and Drew Pinsky.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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There are no survivors in my fights.

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

I was very surprised to learn how many cancer survivors are out there and how they instantly rallied to my support.

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.

I will continue to need operations and therapy for life. For acid attack survivors, the aftermath is a life sentence.

Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.

I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.

We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

We must remain committed to rebuilding communities ravaged by genocide. Survivors deserve a safe and secure pathway home or safe passage elsewhere.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

I've met many Holocaust survivors who find the era infinitely compelling because they have this deep hunger to understand how it all could possibly have happened.

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

I have worked on behalf of storm survivors for 10 years, and compared to historic hurricanes on the mainland, Hurricane Maria is the worst recovery I've ever witnessed.

Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.

There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

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