Quotes About Resilience

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

A man is more than his failings.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

Great men have big failures.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Man must suffer to be wise.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.