Quotes about Resilience In Adversity
We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't? Those people aren't the ones for you.
— Lisa Wingate
One thing that discovering my own history had taught me is that we must learn not to whip ourselves for the failures of others. When a mother cannot love and protect her children, it is not the children who are defective.
— Lisa Wingate
That's how the grievin' becomes after a time. You've tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected, your life always a quilt with a dark patch or two. The Good Lord uses those to show off the bright colors, I think.
— Lisa Wingate
the past travels with you. It's whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.
— Lisa Wingate
It was all right for life not to be perfect. If you let it, if you didn't close yourself off from the chance for it, life could still be good. Better than good.
— Lisa Wingate
Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's.
— Lisa Wingate
most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.
— Lisa Wingate
When I listened to the lady telling her story, I could relate to not being welcome someplace. I liked the idea that God might take that very thing that stunk the worst about your life and change it around into something good.
— Lisa Wingate
Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.
— Livy
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
— Henry Ford
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
— Napoleon Hill
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
— Michael Jordan