Quotes about Resilience
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
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
— JRR Tolkien
A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
— Charles Spurgeon
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
— Charles Spurgeon
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
— Cormac McCarthy