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Quotes About Resilience

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
We are pregnant with freedom.
~ Assata Shakur
To freemen, threats are impotent.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
~ H. L. Mencken
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.
~ Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
~ Doc Hastings
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
~ Gijs de Vries
The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
~ Vinod Khosla
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
~ Khalil Gibran
The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.
~ Erwin McManus
The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.
~ Nelson Mandela
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
~ Malcolm X
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
~ Molly Ivins
I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
~ Unknown
Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.
~ Carol Lynn Pearson
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.
~ George W. Bush
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
~ Winston Churchill
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
~ John Milton
If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin, and the coin tossedinto the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.
~ Henry Dumas
I am no longer tied to the cliffsThreats don't hold any groundI have decided to fly highOn the winds of cool complacence
~ Balroop Singh
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
~ Mahmoud Abbas