Quotes About Resilience

The discouraged have their backs turned toward the light, so that all the black shadows fall across their path.

It is said that long livers are great hopers. If you keep your hope bright in spite of discouragements, and meet all difficulties with a cheerful face, it will be very difficult for age to trace its furrows on your brow. There is longevity in cheerfulness.

It is a law of nature, said Herodotus, "that faint-hearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries; for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

What would you do, if you were besieged in a place entirely destitute of provisions? As long as there was anything to eat in the enemy's camp, answered Napoleon, "I should not be at all concerned. A will finds a way.

I have always had this fear, the fear that love is not enough. One must be able to love yet also to live together and to live in this world, which will probably always remain cruel.

It will hurt. said Petra. But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.

I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond .

I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.