Quotes About Resilience

Suffering perfects the soul.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Hope is a door left unlatched in a high wind banging and banging itself to pieces.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

rather may be cured.

Morgan's studies show that the use of the SERE simulated torture techniques impairs memory and prompts inaccurate answers from those subjected to the tactics. Mitchell and Jessen's methods, Morgan said, create a mental state that makes it difficult to remember information accurately—making the credibility of all statements suspect.

Time did indeed heal all wounds, but it left a nasty, unforgiving scar

Sin'jari didn't give her a chance to formulate a plan. He lunged at her. But years of karate training and four older brothers had honed her reflexes.

As his grandfather said in that sage Pequot Indian manner of his, Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

An old Churchill slogan popped into Gray's head. If you're going through hell, keep going.

He counted his steps. That was how you got through tough things. You counted. Once you said, "one," then you knew "two" was coming, and "three" right after that.

In the real world, few plans proceeded as planned. For a mission to succeed, a plan had to be liquid, capable of changing at a moment's notice.

Endurance is the crowning quality…

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.

It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Marilah kita bergembira. Ingatlah bahwa kemalangan yang paling sulit ditanggung adalah yang tidak pernah menimpa kita.

memory will cut you off at the knees if you let it.