Quotes about Resilience

Such is life, such the mysterious dispensations of providence. All of us have our little crosses, and every man, as the apostle so justly remarked, shall bear his own burden.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

It's always good to be underestimated.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Life in community with broken people will always include such disappointments. But they can be met with resilience, and with a faith in the eternal significance of a life lived with the suffering. Such a life will never be easy or tidy; the work is endless and will always stretch on before us.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.