Quotes About Resilience

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Believe me, man, there are people who are going to have way more troubles mentally than I am.

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Men can bear all things but good days.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.