Quotes about Resilience

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Character is that which can do without success.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.