Quotes About Resilience

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.