Quotes About Resilience

It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

If you can\'t do what you want, do what you can.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

Don't be afraid. The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

It wasn't about being brave, or toughing it out, or any of that air-punching motivational language; all that was required in these moments was to keep plodding on, quietly, resolutely, without fuss or drama.

She smiled a lot, laughed easily and listened intently when others spoke. She had been battling the system her whole life, but it had not made her bitter. To me she was the epitome of the modern Iranian woman – a generous heart and an inner core of indefatigable strength.

love does not mean everything will be perfect. Humans are not perfect. We mess up, argue, make mistakes. But if we're smart, we forget about those and get back to love because that's what makes life worthwhile.

We've all got disabilities. It's just that sometimes they're hidden.

Et un jour on se retrouve à jouer seul. L'autre retire ses billes, reprend ses cartes, et vous restez là, comme un con, devant une partie inachevée... A attendre. Parce que vous ne pouvez faire que ça, attendre. Cesser d'attendre, ça voudrait dire que c'est fini.

I'll beat this. I'm gonna beat this thing.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

I've been around and I've noticed that walking's easy when the road is flat; those big ol' hills will get you every time. The good Lord gave us mountains so we could learn how to climb.