Quotes About Resilience

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Man is more than constitutions.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.

My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.