Quotes about Resilience

Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine...

You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free.

Whether you be man or woman, you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It may be that you are in the employ of a tyrannous master or mistress, and you feel that you are harshly treated. Look upon this also as necessary to your training. Return your employer's unkindness with gentleness and forgiveness.

We begin to be mature adults only when we cease to whine and revile and commence to search for the hidden justice which regulates our lives.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and worry are the exceptional enemies of understanding, and he who encourages them, who does no longer slay them, thwarts himself at each step.

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognise failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them; and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.

A robust man cannot assist a weaker except that weaker is inclined to be helped, or even then the weak guy must grow to be robust of himself; he ought to, via his very own efforts, broaden the power which he admires in another. None however himself can modify his situation.

Un hombre sólo empieza a ser hombre cuando deja de lamentarse y maldecir, y comienza a buscar la justicia oculta que gobierna su vida.

the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Circumstances don't shape us, so much as they reveal us.