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Resilience quotes for days that ask more of you than you have
Resilience has been flattened into a workplace word — something you are asked to have more of when the conditions are bad. That is not what the older writers meant by it. They were describing something quieter: the ability to take a hit and still be recognisably yourself the next morning.
Notice how physical the good lines are. A headland with waves breaking on it. Water wearing down stone. Pines that stay green when the year turns cold. None of these things resist by force. They last because of what they are made of, and because they are still there after the weather moves on. That is a more honest picture of endurance than any line about pushing through.
We keep this list short on purpose. Every quotation here can be opened in the book it is attributed to, at the section named beside it — which rules out most of what circulates under this heading. One sentence you can trust is worth more than twenty you cannot.
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“Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
Meditations, IV.49 (George Long translation, 1862)“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.”
Enchiridion, 5“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
On Providence, V“When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.”
Analects, IX.27“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
As You Like It, II.1“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
West India Emancipation address, 1857
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