Quotes about Resilience

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him 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!

Life is hard but so very beautiful

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

And this, too, shall pass away.

The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, It's a slip and not a fall.

Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.