Quotes About Resilience

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

Four inch nails is more like it!

I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.

Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.