Quotes About Resilience

It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with a grim tenacity, but indubitably dying. Her vital ardour had sunk below the mark from which it could rise again, and was now ebbing as water runs from a little crack in a pitcher.

We must all be fighters and strugglers, Lewie, and it is better to wear out than to rust out. It is bad to let choice things become easily familiar; for, you know, familiarity is apt to beget a proverbial offspring. The

Jock put his shoulder to the framework and the whole thing crumbled inward with a crash of glass. Rotten as touch-wood, he said. This place would never stand a siege.

How will you deal with him? Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever the Almighty permits us. Supposing he's not alone? Oh, then, if his trusties are with him, there'll be a bonny rumpus.

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

Most people are a little scared at new things ... You want a bigger heart to face danger which you go out to look for, and which doesn't come to you in the ordinary way of business. Still, that's pretty much the same thing—good nerves and good health, and a natural liking for rows.

A man's courage is like a horse that refuses a fence; you have got to take him by the head and cram him at it again. If you don't, he will funk worse next time. I hadn't enough courage to be able to take chances with it, though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most was being afraid.

The best way to be rid of quaking knees is to keep a busy mind.

My first rule, everyday, was to find enough food to make it to the next day. Then I could afford the luxury of worrying about the enemy.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.

If you continue in this direction you are likely to experience wearisomeness, painfulness, hunger, perils, nakedness, sword, lions, dragons, darkness, and, in a word, death, and who knows what else.

Some who set out for this crown, even after they have gone quite a long ways, allow others who come along to snatch their victory from them. So hold fast to what you have, and let no man take away your crown.' You are not yet out of reach of the gunshot of the Devil.

failings. I also know that a man, by

The neighbours also came out to see him run [Jer. 20:10]; and, as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return; and, among those that did so, there were two that resolved to fetch him back by force. The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.

Though the hill is high, I still desire to walk up it. I don't care how difficult it is, because I understand that it leads to the way of life. Cheer up heart and don't grow faint or fear, because even if it is difficult, it is better to go this way because it is the right way, for while the wrong way is easier, it ends in anguish.

There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.

For finally, "you can always count on Americans to do the right thing," as Churchill pointed out, "but only after they've tried everything else.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

God uses people who fail—'cause there aren't any other kind around.

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

People change when they ... Hurt enough that they have to, Learn enough that they want to, and Receive enough that they are able to.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.