Quotes About Resilience

Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his "A" string snapped and he transposed the composition and finished it on three strings. That is life- to have your "A" string snap and finish on three strings.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

You can't stop the world and get off, so you just have to learn to live on it.

NEW YORK CITY— —stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law-abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.

There isn't a person alive who has not been afraid at one time or another. It is only the brave man who can feel fear and still go forward.

The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way.

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

Stresul implicat in lupta ia totdeauna sfirsit cind te predai.

Harry M. Caudill

Fear is a good emotion to cultivate; it keeps you alert. Without it few survive.

Zelfs als morgen de hemel op aarde werd gevestigd, dan nog zou het, door alles wat er gebeurd was in het verleden, niet de hemel kunnen zijn

Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over, it isn't so bad.

The life of a soldier far from the cannon's roar has little glamour to it.

He rounded corners one by one, each time by himself. He didn't think about bravery till long afterwards; at the time, the only thing in his mind was the luckless lieutenant's empty shoes. If he did touch off a torpedo, he'd never know what hit him. Oddly, that helped steady him. He'd seen too many worse ways of dying.