Resilience Quotes

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

If you are going through hell keep going.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford-we have no right-to look back. We must look forward.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.

One must never be discouraged by defeats in one's youth, but continue to learn throughout one's whole life.

We must go on and on like the gun-horses, till we drop.

To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition. Even when they comin, gunnin I stand position.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.