Quotes About Resilience

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.