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Quotes About Resilience

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.
~ Nikki Sixx
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
~ Jean Paul
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
~ Richard P. Feynman
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
~ Martin Buber
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.
~ Bernard Darwin
At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
~ Joseph Campbell
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
~ Rene Dubos
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
~ Napoleon Hill
It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.
~ Llewelyn Powys
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
~ Barry Humphries
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
~ John Bradshaw
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
~ Maxine Kumin
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
~ Robert Fortune
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.
~ John Milton
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
~ Patricia Montandon
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
~ Joseph Addison
Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.
~ Richard Louv
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
~ David Attenborough
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius