Quotes About Resilience

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow

I would rather wear out than rust out.

The same generation that had been driven to such depths in the 1930s rose up to push back the forces of totalitarianism in a two-ocean global war in the 1940s.

We should feel proud that we are

requisite variety — the ability to survive under varied conditions. Often this means "fixing" input behind the scenes in code so that all the varied inputs conform to the format that the code/database needs

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

I've lost more times than I've won, and every damn time I got back up! That's all that matters!

She was wearing her T-shirt with the bull's-eye printed over her heart, the one that says, GO AHEAD AND TRY IT, BUFFY.

I may be dead, but I ain't stupid.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.

You will never get death out of your system.

Do you feel like you've been through a meat grinder or just tumbled around in a cement mixer?

He glanced around, his eyes widening a little when he looked toward her bedroom. She winced, but resisted the urge to jump and close the door. He was staring at the poster above her bed, an image of Annie Oakley with the quote "I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. Right?" "As long as a person doesn't spend all their time preparing for the worst and miss when they stumble across the best.

I have a friend I was a POW with, Cole Makani Hunter, who married an ecotherapist," he told her.

The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys. The Rio Negro had given him Daniela. One river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least.

Guilt was a living, breathing thing. Guilt could tie you tighter than ropes, and he should know. He had extensive experience with both. He'd been the captive of a madman, along with Jess, for three days that had felt like an eternity. Then, this past year, he'd been a POW in Afghanistan, the prisoner of insurgents, for six torturous months. Yet it had been the three days with Jess that had broken him in ways the insurgents could never accomplish.