Quotes About Resilience

It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it.

Fight against the impossible and win

Being brave doesn't mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do.

There were some horrors you couldn't fight and couldn't change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

Winston Churchill once said to his fellow countrymen, "We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy." Today, thanks to a malign combination of litigation, regulation, and pedagogical fashion, sugar-candy people are everywhere.

It had come down in the storms several winters ago and he had watched it sink over time on the shattered branches beneath it, like a great gnarled monster protractedly lying down, bedding down in its own rot and wreckage.

Rejections are thin 'cause they really have nothing to say other than, Sorry, dude, you're screwed. acceptances are thick 'cause they have lots of stuff to say like, Welcome, dude, you're not screwed, we want you.

They draw strength from being alone while they create or explore new worlds. They need that aloneness. They have developed the habit of mind to accept and seek out that aloneness. Sometimes, they must push back against their society to get what they need.

despite finishing first in my class at Yale Law School, I was rejected by all 32 of the law firms to which I applied.

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

Never despair. Never surrender.

IF YOU HURT INSIDE, GET CERTIFIED, AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD... DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

Dan: We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high and humanity is so close to the edge... Rorschach: Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive there if you observe rules: Just hang on by fingernails... and never look down.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?

In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?

That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.