Quotes About Resilience

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

It is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

the fact that there's a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...

the fact that Stacy seems to feel some kind of rapport with that woebegone creature, the fact that whether this is because she feels fierce and free, or caged and cowed, doesn't bear thinking about.

He'd never have to know why I made it, a negative energy cake, and at least it would keep him quiet for a while, because the roof of his mouth would be all clogged up, the fact that where's all this aggression coming from, dear me, the fact that unless you're upbeat enough, and immune to criticism, you're just a sitting duck if someone makes a single untoward remark.