Resilience

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
-Japanese Proverb

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."
-Japanese Proverb

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

"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-Abraham Lincoln

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
-Bernard Williams