Quotes about Resilience

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

I'm not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit

There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?

I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.

The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant. He looked impersonal and calm. He was not like a public figure in a public place; he was like a man alone in his own room, listening to the radio.

And, after all, you've got to live." "Not that way," said Roark.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.