Quotes About Resilience

no one can be strong all the time, no matter how broad their shoulders!

those who want to beat you down can't succeed unless you give them help!

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

Steel Watch

In these days of the shattering of the old form and the building of the new, adaptability is needed. We must avert the danger of crystallisation through pliability and expansion. The "old order changeth," but primarily it is a change of dimension and of aspect, and not of material or of foundation.

The rain could not last forever; Nature must cease weeping some time. Just as girls, far away from their old homes and their old friends, must cease wetting their pillows with regretful tears after a time, and look forward to the new interests and new friends to which they have come.

And how do you get on?" she added, lowering her voice. "How about the Ogre?" "He has not ground me into bread-flour yet," responded Ruth, smiling.

the little death. What would or could be left of a human being after such an experience?

Do we despise the rose because its beauty is fleeting? Some do, and seek comfort in glass or marble... ...Glass shatters, marble is eaten away by the tides of time. But the rose has unfurled its banner every spring to the sun and will do so for god knows how many uncounted ages more.

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

But if we grow stronger...and rise higher than what's pullin' us down...Yes, rise higher than dirt...that fifty pound weight will lift and you'll be free, free without anybody's by-your-leave. Do something to wash out the sin.

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

Hearts don't break...They only crack into a thousand little pieces. If they broke it would be better—because then they wouldn't exist.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best courage of all.

It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

I have seen much to hate here--much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live.

The following is a narrative poem. It became a huge success at the time of its publication, and inspired the 1944 movie The White Cliffs of Dover. It is about an American girl who visits London just before the First World War, marries, and stays in England during the succeeding years, including the start of the Second World War.

She rarely cried at life, but certain turns of phrase prompted hot tears to sting her cheeks.

The body always wants to live. The spirit is less certain, more susceptible to the heart.