resilience Quotes

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

The best way out is always through.

In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: it goes on.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.