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Quotes About Resilience

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
~ Plutarch
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.
~ Pope Pius XII
Brave men don't learn from their home.
~ Quvenzhane Wallis
If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
~ Ouida
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
~ Ralph Stanley
Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe
~ Ray Bradbury
I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.
~ Ray Rice
A man destined to hang can never drown
~ Regina Spektor
No man may be completely invulnerable.
~ Rick Riordan
You can't let a man like this beat you.
~ Ricky Hatton
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.
~ Robert Boswell
Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.
~ Robert D. Hales
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
~ Robert Harris
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
~ Robert Jordan
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
~ H. L. Mencken
Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
~ Harrison Ford