Explore more quotes by H. G. Wells

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

People, Trouble

"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."

Church, Hell

"Our true nationality is mankind."

Mankind, Nationality

"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."

World,

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

War, Blind, Conflict

"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

Beginning, Dawn, Past, Twilight

"In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it."

Time, Perception, England, Years

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."

Health, Humor, Cynicism

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Education, History, Race

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."

Time, War, Men, Dissension

Exlpore more Resilience quotes

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."

Aesop, Greek Author

Resilience, Force, Wind

"It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

Resilience, Effort, Play, Spirit

"Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun."

Arna Bontemps, American Poet

Resilience, Sun

"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Resilience, Endurance

"Endurance is patience concentrated."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Resilience, Endurance, Patience

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

Anna Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Resilience, Training

"What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad."

Lou Gehrig, American Athlete

Resilience, Surrender

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Resilience, Suffering

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Resilience, Kindness, Silence, Teachers

"I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me."

Baron Hill, American Politician

Resilience, Lemons, Want