Resilience Test Quotes

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the misfortune of a single day, if the fatal power of the imagination did not exaggerate the real measure of the calamity.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.

That's what defines 'Survivor': it's the ultimate test of who you are.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.