Quotes About Resilience

Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.

You can't take on the Nadir army with three men, said Harokas. What do you suggest? Four would even the odds.

A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear," Helikaon said. "He was right. Remember that when your belly trembles and your legs grow weak.

Someone, who when the whole world turns against you, is still standing by your side.

You understand? If the past must haunt you, then use it wisely. You cannot alter the past, but you can use it to alter the future. The terror you saw has strengthened you, Connavar. It has given you purpose. Bless the dead for that. And move on.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find. A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness

A man takes what the gods thrust upon him.

How delightfully you turn me away - not with strength but with admitted weakness.

Evil lives in a pit.

A man must fight for life even when he believes all is lost.

Life is unfair. Do you think your enemies will sit back and wait until you are fresh? Learn to marshal your strength.

Well," said Decado, "the great Tertullian was once asked what he would do if he was attacked by a man stronger, faster, and infinitely more skillful than he." "What did he say?" "He said he would cut off his damned head for being a liar.

Falling on your face in public might be embarrassing, but not making the attempt at all is an even bigger failure.

I pushed myself off and sailed out of the room. It's hard to slam a door in free fall, don't even try. You can't even swim away with an attitude. It just doesn't work. The best you can do is swim away, scowling.

Hella isn't easy, but Captain Skyler says life isn't easy. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Death is what you do if you're not up for the challenge.

We'll never really tame this girl. We'll just learn to live with her." She used to say that a lot, even after I kept reminding her, "I'm not Kylee, I'm Kyle! I'm not a girl anymore. I'm a boy now.

I might be fired, but I still have friends.

Hellacious has a whole new meaning here.

It's the grass, the tall smothering stiff grass. It always wins. Knock it down, it comes back. Burn it, it comes back. The grass is forever.

I am keeping my powder dry for a political system that will improve my golf game, my blues piano licks and my cooking. Until them, please keep the political scum in your yard. Thank you.

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably.

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it