Quotes About Resilience

It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.

Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.

I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.

He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself doesn't become a monster.

And he told me illegitimi non carborundum translates to, 'Don't let the bastards grind you down.

As a rule, Heather didn't believe in pity parties.

It almost feels like I've suffered in order to be able to see what I otherwise wouldn't.

You know things aren't right in your life when you look forward to going back to war," he said.

My walk through the flames permanently scarred my face, but it was the hidden scars that disabled me even more than the obvious ones.

The race is not always to the swift." "Nor the battle to the strong.

At first the wave of Persia's fleet rolled firm, but next, as our ships jammed into the narrows and no one could help any other and our own bronze teeth bit into our own strakes, whole oarbanks shattered.

Sweetness and Night Long past indignant at the loss of dignity, almost amused by it, but not, every moment of the day a strip search in public, every breath a punishment for what? she couldn't say, which makes her no less penitent, sitting forward, head bowed, in the chair she can't get out of without help, which is itself another punishment,

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.

Because when on a raw and frosty morning I get up at five o'clock and stand shivering my belly off on the stone floor and all the rest still have another hour to snooze before the bells go, I slink downstairs through all the corridors to the big outside door with a permit running-card in my fist, I feel like the first and last man in the world, both at once, if you can believe what I'm trying to say.

Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

I have no patience at all.

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next

They've youth; they'll walk it out like a favorite pair trainers.

They've youth; they'll walk it out like a favorite pair pf trainers.