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Strength quotes on resilience, endurance and the power to go on, from Marcus Aurelius to Churchill and Eleanor Roosevelt, each checked to its source.

What kind of a people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Winston Churchill · Congress, Washington, 26 December 1941

Like Disraeli, he had to fight every mile in all his marches.

Winston Churchill · Lord Randolph Churchill (1906)

Faint, yet pursuing.

The Bible · Judges 8:4

I started on a camel and I will finish on a camel.

Winston Churchill · Article “Guarding Churchill”, Walter Thompson in Eade, March 1921

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

Martin Luther King Jr. · Founders Day address at Spelman College, Atlanta, 10 April 1960.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father’s care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

Winston Churchill · The River War (1899)

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann

The road to victory may not be so long as we expect. But we have no right to count upon this. Be it long or short, rough or smooth, we mean to reach our journey’s end.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 20 August 1940

Thought shall be the harder, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might lessens.

The Battle of Maldon, the Anglo-Saxon poem of 991, in R. K. Gordon's translation of 1926.

Organized power can be opposed only by organized power. Much as I regret this, there is no other way.

Albert Einstein · To R. Fowlkes, a pacifist student, 14 July 1941.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

Albert Einstein · To Auguste Hochberger, 30 July 1919.

Surprise, violence, and speed are the essence of all amphibious landings.

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. V, Closing the Ring (1952)

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Samuel Johnson · Talking of his illness, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784).

It is a crime to despair. We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

Winston Churchill · Churchill in 1938, after Munich.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Francis Bacon · From the essay on adversity.

Energy of mind does not depend on energy of body.

Winston Churchill · Churchill, who ran a world war from his bed in the mornings.

But nothing daunted the valiant heart of man. Son of the Stone Age, vanquisher of nature with all her trials and monsters, he met the awful and self-inflicted agony with new reserves of fortitude.

Winston Churchill · The World Crisis (1923 to 1931)

I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

Thomas à Kempis · The source reads: “Si libenter crucem portas portabit te. If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.”

Very few wars have been won by mere numbers alone. Quality, will-power, geographical advantages, natural and financial resources, the command of the sea, and, above all, a cause which rouses the spontaneous surgings of the human spirit in millions of hearts—these have proved to be the decisive factors in the human story.

Winston Churchill · Broadcast, London, 20 January 1940

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

Albert Einstein · From On the Moral Obligation of the Scientist, October 1950.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Attributed to Walter Winchell · Winchell printed a version in his 1933 column, but the saying was already in circulation by 1916 and nobody knows who coined it.

We must be ready, as we always have been ready, to take the rough with the smooth.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 17 March 1941

Let patience have her perfect work.

The Bible · James 1:4

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