Quotes about Resilience
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
- Livy
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
- Marcus Aurelius
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Marcus Aurelius
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- Phillips Brooks
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
- Oscar Wilde
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
- Theodore Roosevelt
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
- Tom Lehrer
And man will go on. Man, not men.
- Ayn Rand
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
- William Wordsworth