Quotes About Resilience

It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.

Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.

Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.

she didn't see the point of alcohol, or drugs. People had little enough control over their lives without losing more.

It's funny, isn't it, Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally.

Jackson had never really seen the point of existential angst. If you didn't like something you changed it and if you couldn't change it you sucked it up and soldiered on, one foot after the other. ("Remind me not to come to you for therapy," Julia said.)

how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.

All those unclaimed arms and legs lost in the fields of Flanders – Ursula imagined them pushing roots down into the mud and shoots up to the sky and growing once again into men. An army of men marching back for revenge.

She didn't feel she had the fortitude for all those Tudors, they were so relentlessly busy – all that bedding and beheading.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?