Quotes About Resilience

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

I don't need a man in my life.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

I can stand out the war with any man.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.