Honore de Balzac Quotes

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

It's truly unbelievable, the tenacity of life.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

We've always been able to bounce back.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

We all survive more than we think we can.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.