resilience Quotes

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

All of us feel, I think, that our experiences can be the worst possible thing you can go through and that we're alone in it, which is isolating and intense and insurmountable. But we can get over it.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.