Resilience Quotes

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders and entered the rank, or if I could have justified the measure of posterity, and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam. If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under.

Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina.

Hardships exist to make me stronger, helping me grow and improve, not to leave me hopeless or discouraged.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only the second; hardship, poverty, and want are the best school of the soldier.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.

Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.