Quotes about Resilience
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
- Albert Camus
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
- Aristotle
I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
- Arthur Ashe
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man must suffer to be wise.
- Cicero
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
- John Eldredge
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
- John F. Kennedy
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
- Victor Hugo
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
- Euripides