Quotes About Resilience

I would force myself again and again to guard against my own overeagerness. Such self-control was crucial, for many times it led to great victories when self-indulgence might have led to defeats.

You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet.

When soldiers are sick or wounded, doctors can fix them up, but you've got to save them from falling ill in the first place.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.   Seize

We're all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?

Things didn't turn out the way they used to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It is not the question of courage. It is something constitutional, an ability to let go. It maybe nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.

I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.