resilience Quotes

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.