Quotes About Resilience

Getting older... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.

Pray for victory, plan for disaster.

Hemos fracasado ?gimió Julieta. Merlín les sonrió con gran ternura. ?No ?contestó?. Esto no es un fracaso, sólo es una experiencia.

Y en cuanto a nosotros, seguiremos luchando en las montañas como guerrillas si perdemos Kandahar, y si alcanzamos el martirio, habremos obtenido una victoria.» Estoy empezando a cansarme de todo esto, pero empiezo a comprenderlo. La victoria llega con el éxito y la victoria llega con la derrota.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold.Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

And were an epitaph to be my storyI'd have a short one ready for my own.I would have written of me on my stone:I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may take something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.

The only way round is through.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how they abased themselves, of how abjectly they stood in the presence of superstition robed and crowned, I am amazed.

When a man is of no use to himself or to others, when his days and nights are filled with pain and sorrow, why should he remain to endure them longer?

It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.