Quotes About Resilience

Society is a hospital of incurables

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Sorrow makes us children again.

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce

Character is what can do without success.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.