Quotes About Resilience

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me

Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away… people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Wave after wave, dark with storm, crested with foam, surged towards the harbour in which we still sheltered. Should we drive out into the teeth of the gale, or should we bide contented where we were? Yet beyond the breakers was a great hope.

The camel once swallowed, the gnats went down easily enough.

History, which, we are told, is mainly the record of the crimes, follies, and miseries of mankind

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well."15

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

If you are walking through hell, keep walking!

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

In the first three months of actual fighting from the last week in August to the end of November, when the German drive against the Channel ports had come to an end and the first great invasion was definitely arrested, the French lost in killed, prisoners and wounded 854,0001 men. In

I should be unworthy of your confidence and generosity if I did not still cry: Forward, unflinching, unswerving, indomitable, till the whole task is done and the whole world is safe and clean.

sufferance is the badge" of all who have to deal with the Kremlin.

En aquellos días duros, la derrota no era juzgada con indulgencia por los extenuados aliados y todos tuvimos que sobreponernos a ello, con cortesía que apenas velaba el menosprecio y con simpatía que apenas dominaba al resentimiento. Y he de rendir aquí un tributo a la dignidad y al valor tranquilo del ministro italiano y al respeto que supo inspirar a todos en aquellas tristes circunstancias.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.

the Battle of Alamein, called Desert Victory.

Success is never final.

If the whole word, except the United States, sank under the ocean, that community could get its living. They carved it out of the prairie and the forest. They're going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.

In the twelve months from June, 1940, to June, 1941, our civilian casualties were 43,381 killed and 50,856 seriously injured, a total of 94,237. Except for

SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL; FAILURE IS NOT FATAL; IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS.

they meant to test the ground; and in so doing they were prepared to go to the very edge of the precipice. It is so easy to lose one's balance there: a touch, a gust of wind, a momentary dizziness, and all is precipitated into the abyss.

Without Courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.