Quotes About Resilience

The Goddess of Fate clutched me in her hands and often threatened to smash me; but the will grew stronger as the obstacles increased, and finally the will triumphed.

The world is not for cowardly peoples.

Wenn Menschenherzen brechen und Menschenseelen verzweifeln, dann blicken aus dem Dämmerlicht der Vergangenheit die großen Überwinder von Not und Sorge, von Schmach und Elend, von geistiger Unfreiheit und körperlichem Zwange auf sie hernieder und reichen den verzagenden Sterblichen ihre ewigen Hände! Wehe dem Volke, das sich schämt, sie zu erfassen!

Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.

Obstacles are placed across our path in life, not to be boggled at but to be surmounted.

O es que las guerras perdidas deben ocasionar fatalmente la ruina de los pueblos que las pierden? Brevemente se podría responder que esto es posible siempre que la derrota militar testifique la corrupción moral de un pueblo, su cobardía, su falta de carácter, en fin, su condición de indignidad. No siendo así, la derrota militar impulsará más bien a un futuro de mayor resurgimiento, en lugar de ser la lápida de la existencia nacional.

Obstacles are placed across our path not to be boggled at, but to be surmounted.

In order not to despair completely of the people with whom I lived, I had to separate the outward appearances of their lives from the reasons why they developed that way. Then I could bear everything without discouragement.

Life does not forgive weakness.

If you want to shine like the sun, first you have to burn like it.

if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

All the world needs is one clip to string everyone together #bestrong

Tears upon the dry sponge of heart do not prove I am Promethean.

I have looked evil in the eye, my friend. I am afraid to say it does not blink.

Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.

A spirit of practicality had come to her aid. It was only human. When the earthquake stops, when the flood recedes, when the volcanic dust settles or the guns fall silent, the survivors pick their way through the rubble and debris and wreckage. A chair leg here, a first communion certificate or a bundle of love letters there. The flotsam and jetsam of the old ways?the ways that will never return.

Satan wants you for a storm cloud, baby.

If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.

The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around me.

Sé que os vais a divertir mucho, que vais a vivir experiencias asombrosas y que encararéis cualquier reto con entereza y valentía. Por favor, haced todo lo posible por ser bondadosas, curiosas, peculiares y divertidas, y cuidad siempre la una de la otra.