Quotes About Resilience

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.

Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Hope lights up our darkness.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.