Quotes About Resilience

Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

In one day alone, at the end of December, as a result of frostbite, more than fourteen thousand German soldiers had been forced to submit to amputation. Not all of them survived the operation.

Indian Corps and the 4th Corps will push through the barrage of fire regardless of loss, using reserves if required.

Seeking to encourage Collins, Churchill replied with his favourite Boer saying, 'All will come right.' On

Such hope. It breaks your heart.

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

The first thing you should know about the second Bradbury expedition is I lived to tell you about it. That should be obvious since I'm telling you about it, right? But I had a drinking buddy back at the Old Town Tavern in Tycho Under, and practically every one of his stories ended with, "And then I died in the mess.

A Russian fashion consultant once told me that fashion stops at the Siberian border, where instead of showing off, the prerogative is survival. The

When others were overcome by the heat, his hand would be "cooler than snow and more fragrant than musk".

being criticized by people you care about is almost always a part of exercising leadership.

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others.

It is far better to bear the contempt and hatred of adversaries than to fall into reproach and into the snare of the devil, as Paul says in 1 Tim. 3:7. The

Though my enemies and all the world oppress me, persecute me, and drive me out, I still have a Lord who is, and wants to be, my Lord because God has promised this to me.

You must die if you would live under this King. You must bear the cross and the hatred of the whole world. You must not flee from ignominy, poverty, hunger, and thirst, in other words, all the evil that floods the earth.

I say the Gospel is frail because we are frail.

Even if I knew the world was going to go to pieces I'd still plant an apple tree today