Quotes About Resilience

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.

If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.

I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.