Quotes About Resilience

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

Need to put footstep of courage into stirrup of patience.

A strange occurrence was the sudden appearance of eight emperor penguins from a crack 100 yds. away at the moment when the pressure upon the ship was at its climax. They walked a little way towards us, halted, and after a few ordinary calls proceeded to utter weird cries that sounded like a dirge for the ship. None of us had ever before heard the emperors utter any other than the most simple calls or cries, and the effect of this concerted effort was almost startling.

Difficulties are just things to overcome.

The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and I have vivid memories of their angular peculiarities even to-day.

Just when things looked their worse, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.

Who the hell are you? he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. My name is Shackleton he replied in a quiet voice.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

I made a decision that while cancer may define how I die, it would not define how I live.

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.

If failure is our inevitable future, then let's fail boldly and fail forward.

We cannot love deeply or risk greatly and never know failure or disappointment.

Nietzsche's observation, "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

eres el tipo de persona que se ha dado por vencido no solo en la vida, sino también contigo mismo?

Life is a series of challenges, adventures, and yes, even battles. There will always be giants to subdue and dragons to slay. I have already decided to die with my sword in hand. There is more courage in us than danger ahead of us. You are strong enough for the battles ahead. My intention for this book is that you would never surrender, that you would never settle, that you would save nothing for the next life. May you die with your quivers empty. May you die with your hearts full.

We have no control over the reality that in this world we will have trouble, but we have control over whether we decide to allow our hearts to be troubled.

The warrior is like a river, with fluid and adaptive moves. The warrior is not rigid or unchanging. The warrior is not like a stone that cannot be broken but like water that even when cut in two cannot be divided. It is not a weapon that makes you a warrior—it is your wisdom.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

No plan survives contact with the enemy

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.

Sweat saves blood.

Questa sventura non la cambierei con la tua servitù, sappilo bene