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Quotes About Resilience

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
~ Nelson Mandela
No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.
~ Nixon Waterman
A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability
~ Paulo Coelho
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
~ Peter Kreeft
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
~ Phillips Brooks
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]
~ Plautus
A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
~ Robert Burns
We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.
~ Robert E. Lee
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
~ Robert E. Lee
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
~ Robert E. Lee
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
~ Robert Southwell
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
~ Robin Hobb
One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.
~ Roger Peyrefitte
There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'
~ Rudyard Kipling
In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.
~ Russell Crowe
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
~ Samuel Johnson
The man can only ride you when your back is bent.
~ Sarah Palin
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
~ Seneca the Younger
When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
~ Shaquille O'Neal