Quotes About Resilience

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

as does the statue in the marble, in the hard, resisting material of life itself

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

You are, so to speak, a bad sailor, and the motion of life makes you brain-sick.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Never despair.

I shall not wholly die.

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Vezzera me miró como miran los tuberculosos condenados al reposo, a un hombre fuerte que no se jacta de ello. Y en realidad, creo que ya se precipitaba su tisis. Se

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.