Quotes About Resilience

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.

Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door, and say, 'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. "What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Peace has its victories but it takes brave men to win them

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.