Quotes About Resilience

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said ó namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable.It fell to me to express it.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.

"Not in vain" may be the pride of those who have survived and the epitaph of those who fell.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.

For each and for all, as for the Royal Navy, the watchword should be, "Carry on, and dread nought."

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.