Resilience Quotes

Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy.

Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it-so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the lastnugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Mr. Speaker, as I stand here today, I think of the young men who died taking Vimy Ridge. I think of the Greatest Generation who grew up during the Depression and fought through WWII. They showed us how to fight for what we believe in and how to sacrifice for what we hold dear. Today, across this country, the last members of this Greatest Generation live in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. They're in their small apartments and the homes they built so long ago with their own hands.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

The strongest response to terrorists is to carry on living our lives and our values as we have until now - self-confident and free, considerate and engaged. We Europeans will show our free life is stronger than any terror.

The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if the probable outcome is failure.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back!

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.