Quotes About Resilience

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

Don't be economic Girlie-Men

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

A man may be down, but he is never out.