Quotes About Resilience

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.

I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.