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Quotes About Resilience

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
~ Samuel Johnson
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
~ Erica Jong
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
~ Vauvenargues
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
~ Ann Landers
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson
But desperate people find courage.
~ Ken Follett
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
~ William Shakespeare
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.
~ Dalai Lama
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
~ Aaron Hill
Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
~ Brene Brown
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
~ Brian Tracy
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
~ Virgil
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
~ Bill Crawford
Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.
~ Brene Brown
Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.
~ Douglas Conant
Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.
~ Brene Brown
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
~ Franz Kafka
Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.
~ Derrick Bell
Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
~ Ruth Gordon
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
~ James Forrestal
To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
~ John Milius