Quotes About Resilience

But hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

What can't be changed must be endured.

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.

Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad.

the world had to be faced as it was, not as you wished it to be

May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

You will do well.

Well, we'll survive, the Light willing. Some grinned and added, And if the Light doesn't will, we'll still survive.

Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.

Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago. -Mat

Until you can, remember this. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Lan shook his head sightly He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

No plan of battle survives first contact

He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They could gentle him, or burn him to a crisp where he stood, and he no longer cared.

He was not as she remembered. His features were the same, but his face was hard. Blue ice made his eyes. The bloody rips in his coat and breeches, the blood on his face, seemed to suit that face.