72 Movie Quotes about Resilience (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

Memorable quotes about resilience, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Are you sure you're all right? -Down, but never for the full count.

Roddy McDowall as VINCENT LF-396 in The Black Hole (1979)

22 A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather. To live off the land... To eat things that would make a billy goat puke.

Richard Crenna as Colonel Samuel "Sam" Trautman in Rambo 1 - First Blood

23 George Moore said... I learned it by heart years ago. He said that, each great passion is the fruit of many fruitless years.

Gina Lollobrigida as Maria Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

24 People with ropes around their necks don't always hang.

Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

25 Not me. I'd want my house so that nothing could ever move it. So down deep that an earthquake couldn't shake it, and a cyclone would be just another wind going by.

Quote from The Westerner (1940)

26 No. Our turnin' back don't mean nothin'. Not in the long run.

John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956)

27 Ship's rats don't drown. No, sir. You cannot drown one of them. They're all climbing up the tower.

Quote from Three Skeleton Key (Escape)

28 These things are minor irritations. I mean, it's nothing that we can't easily handle.

Quote from Dragon connection (1980)

29 You told me I was strong as an ox. -Well, even an ox dies.

John Wayne as J.B. Books; James Stewart as Dr. Hostetler in The Shootist

30 How long do you expect to last? -Much longer than that.

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name; Lee Van Cleef as Colonel Douglas Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More