William Faulkner Quotes

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

We all survive more than we think we can.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Men can bear all things but good days.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

A gentleman can live through anything.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

Resilience can go an awful long way.