Quotes About Resilience

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven't." —Thomas Edison

Survival of the fittest

Horatius at the Bridge?

She was pacifistic and empathetic by nature, but she was also a survivor, and her spirit and sense of fight were climbing back off the mat, with a vengeance, right before his eyes.

The physicist glared at him defiantly but allowed herself to be carried without further theatrics.

We all come from an uninterrupted line of humanity's winners. Like gunfighters in the Old West, just being alive means that you're undefeated.

Douglas E. Richards

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond,

Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ?—Arthur Golden

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond, becoming battle hardened.

its outer Amazon coating was quickly shredded as incoming fire skinned the vehicle alive, revealing the carbyne-reinforced structure underneath. It was like a Terminator whose face had been torn off to reveal the gleaming, indestructible skeleton within.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

Douglas E. Richards

I've taken such a giant step onto that slope that I've slid straight down to the cesspool at its bottom.

Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds.

she whispered through the pain,

Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.

Great," I said, rolling my eyes. "We'll get the chance to know what it feels like to be an ear of corn as a thick cloud of locusts approach.

Nick, no matter what, we'll find a way to cure you of your

Maybe it would be well understood in this far future time that resilience, determination, refusal to accept defeat, and ability to bounce back from tragedy were the hallmarks of the human condition.

An impressive group," said the admiral, "with an even more impressive team dynamic. On paper, there is no way a collection of hardened military men, inexperienced civilians, and quirky genius scientists should get along so well." "I think the secret is that they're all decent, caring people," said Cochran. "And they've been through hell and back together." "They're

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." —Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher (1844-1900)