Quotes About Resilience

Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Press on, press on, men.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.