#Resilience Quotes

“Even through the hollow eyes of deathI spy life peering.”

“Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”

“Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.”

“To take arms against a sea of troubles.”

“Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.”

“Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

“What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.”

“Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.”

“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”

“In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.”

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,The seasons' difference, as the icy fangAnd churlish chiding of the winter's wind,Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.”

“I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.”

“Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smilingExtremity out of act.”

“I do opposeMy patience to his fury, and am arm'dTo suffer, with a quietness of spirit,The very tyranny and rage of his.”

“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.”

“Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.”

“This England never did, nor never shall,Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,But when it first did help to wound itself.Now these her princes are come home again,Come the three corners of the world in arms,And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,If England to itself do rest but true.”

“If you cannot be free be as free as you can.”

“Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.”

“The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.”

“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.”

“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”

“Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,Nor age so eat up my invention,Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,But they shall find awaked in such a kindBoth strength of limb and policy of mind,Ability in means, and choice of friends,To quit me of them throughly.”

“Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.”

“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“I am a willow of the wilderness,Loving the wind that bent me.”

“Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.”

“As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

“Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit”

“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”

“To persevereIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.”

“Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise”

“There are some men above grief and some men below it.”

“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”

“Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.”

“Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.”

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

“Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!But it means that they have the ability to deal with it”

“Difficulties exist to be surmounted.”

“Have patience, and endure”

“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.”

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”

“If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.”

“To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.”

“Keep calm and carry on.”

“When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”