Rick Yancey Quotes

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

You should stay here. This is your land. These are your houses. Your meadows and gardens. Your memories. You shouldn't abandon your land just because it's difficult to live, because you are pressured by injustice and degradation. It was never part of the Serbian and Montenegrin character to give up in the face of obstacles, to demobilize when it's time to fight ...

It is better to die standing, than to live bending.

I remain unvanquished

If I get beaten I can walk away with my head high, knowing I have given everything.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

I aint dead, I aint done, I ain't scared, I aint run, no matter what, no matter what, Still I stand

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Beloved. You are as brave a man as Harry Truman—or FDR—or Lincoln. You can go on to find some peace, some achievement amidst all the pain. You have been strong, patient, determined beyond any words of mine to express …. To step out now would be wrong for our country, and I can see nothing but a wasteland for your future. Your friends would be frozen in embarrassed silence and your enemies jeering.