Quotes About Resilience

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­- but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.