Quotes About Resilience

It's no use resenting a thing that you've no power to stop.

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away?

I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong.

People who ought to die of shock and exposure don't die of shock and exposure, et cetera, et cetera. The human frame is tougher than one can imagine possible. Moreover, in my experience, a physical shock is more often fatal than a mental shock.

In the words of a best seller, 'You've nothing on me.

Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.

Nobody shall drive us away," I said. "We're going to be happy here." We said it like a challenge to fate.

Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured.

It's no good going back over the past. It's the future one has to live for.

Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.

One doesn't want to die young. Sometimes one has to.

She took disaster as it should be taken, dealing with it competently and thereby reducing it almost to insignificance.

Life is a difficult business... It needs infinite courage and a lot of endurance. And in the end one wonders: 'Was it worth while?' - Mrs. Lorrimer, Cards on the Table

Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory

I know—I know. To all of us, Mademoiselle, there comes a time when death is preferable to life. But it passes—sorrow passes and grief. You cannot believe that now, I know.

So many things are difficult," said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.

You have the clear brain. Yes, one cannot go back over the past. One must accept things as they are. And sometimes, Madame, that is all one can do—accept the consequences of one's past deeds.

Family strength is a marvellous thing.

The Kiddles had come and conquered. Life was stronger than death.

Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for.

Getting soft—that's the curse of the present day.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.