resilience Quotes

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Respect the burden.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.