Quotes About Resilience

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.