Quotes About Resilience

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

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

Never, never, never give in!

Become a ghost. Forget the attention. Just hustle.

No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.

Along with the friction, there must also be growth. This growth will nullify the effect of the friction.

We all must learn not to pray according to our victory. It is easy to pray after we have been victorious, but not after we have failed.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

Fasten your jibs and loosen your mainsails, you lousy lubbers.

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

Manchmal sag' ich mir: dein Schicksal ist einzig; preise die übrigen glücklich—so ist noch keiner gequält worden.—dann lese ich einen Dichter der Vorzeit, und es ist mir, als säh' ich in mein eignes Herz. Ich habe so viel auszustehen! Ach, sind denn Menschen vor mir schon so elend gewesen?

Before capitalism will go to hell, then, it will for the foreseeable future hang in limbo, dead or about to die from an overdose of itself but still very much around, as nobody will have the power to move its decaying body out of the way.

than all the sandbags and dumb-bells put together.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.

I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.

When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.

When I was a little boy, I wanted a dog desperately, and we had no money. My parents got me an ant. I called it "Spot." Coming home late one night, Sheldon Finklestein tried to bully me. Spot was with me; I said "Kill!" and Sheldon stepped on my dog.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Today's problem is replaced by new prob lems in an unending procession. We seem barely to have a chance to catch our breath before new challenges confront us.

Sustainable happiness is not the absence of problems. As Nichiren writes: "Though worldly troubles may arise, never let them disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even sages or worthies.