Quotes About Resilience

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

There is nothing in this world, incredible though it may seem, to which the human body and with it the human soul cannot in time learn to adapt itself.

Your time will come. But if it doesn't come, don't let that make no difference either.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

But me they'll lash in hammock, drop me deep.Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep.I feel it stealing now. Sentry, are you there?Just ease these darbies [manacles] at the wrist,And roll me over fair!I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Herman Parish

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them.

Love is stronger than violence.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Die wahren Siege sind die Stillen.

McKenna uses this story of a drowning woman to illustrate how stubbornly we can hold ourselves back.

After thousands of nights under those same stars, he woke up as many thousands of mornings under that same sun and trudged for as many thousands of days under the same sky, always feeling out of place.

Because he had enjoyed every advantage since birth, one of the few privileges denied to Benjamin Rash was that of a heroic rise: his was not a story of resilience and preseverance of the tale of an unbreakable will forging a golden destiny for itself out of little more than dross. In and out of sleep. Like a needle coming out from under a black cloth and then vanishing again. Unthreaded.

to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but t is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service

The longer the span of someone's existence, the more certain he is to see and suffer much that he would rather have been spared.