Quotes About Resilience

I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

Men will not always die quietly.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Heaven help the man who fights his fear.

Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

Even in despair, man must laugh.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.