“You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
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Others on Resilience
Sir Winston Churchill
5 quotes“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
FDR
4 quotes“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Louisa May Alcott
4 quotes“I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
Napoleon Hill
3 quotes“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
Helen Keller
3 quotes“You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.”
Tennessee Williams
3 quotes“What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
3 quotes“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”
Napoleon
3 quotes“My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”
Richard Nixon
2 quotes“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
Sir Walter Scott
2 quotes“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2 quotes“But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.”
Eric Hoffer
2 quotes“Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.”