Quotes About Resilience

If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.

I could never identify with that word, 'weak.'

If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

Human nature is weak.

If you are a bit weak in your head, maybe you can train your mind, but it will never be your strong point.

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn't tell anyone about it - maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I'd been in an accident.

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.

Especially in front of my dad, I don't like being weak. I don't like crying in front of my dad because I don't want to make him cry.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

At Kentucky, you have to be a competitor. If you're not, you're going to look weak. You're going to look like you don't belong.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

It's okay to have moments where you feel weak; you don't always have to be strong.

Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.