Quotes About Resilience

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Winston S. Churchill

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed...why should we fear for our future?

I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.

In one respect a cavalry charge is very like ordinary life. So long as you are all right, firmly in your saddle, your horse in hand, and well armed, lots of enemies will give you a wide berth. But as soon as you have lost a stirrup, have a rein cut, have dropped your weapon, are wounded, or your horse is wounded, then is the moment when from all quarters enemies rush upon you. Such

Bolsheviks create their own difficulties which they successfully overcame later.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, Wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, Are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." —Lady Diana Cooper, 1965

Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour.

If you are going through hell, keep going

In harsh or melancholy epochs free men may always take comfort from the grand lesson of history, that tyrannies cannot last except among servile races. The years which seem endless to those who endure them are but a flick of mischance in the journey. New and natural hopes leap from the human heart as every spring revives the cultivated soil and rewards the faithful, patient husbandmen.

When York's son, hitherto Earl of March, learned that his father's cause had devolved upon him he did not shrink. He fell upon the Earl of Wiltshire and the Welsh Lancastrians, and on February 2, 1461, at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, near Hereford, he beat and broke

Winston S. Churchill