Quotes about Resilience
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
— John Maxwell
The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.
— John C. Wright
Some problems build character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.
— John C. Wright
It is clear that bearing the cross patiently does not mean that we harden ourselves or do not feel any sorrow; according to the old notion of the Stoic philosophers that a greathearted man is someone who has laid off his humanity, and who is not touched by adversity and prosperity, and not even by joy and sorrow, but who acts like a cold rock.
— John Calvin
So it will be that no matter what kind of cross is placed upon us, we will steadily maintain endurance even through the narrowest straits of the soul.
— John Calvin
The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner
— John Calvin
Although the wicked rise up against us with violence, let us be of a bronze countenance, as Ezekiel says (3:8 f.). Let
— John Calvin
For the more we are afflicted by adversities, the more surely our fellowship with Christ is confirmed!
— John Calvin
The fear he speaks of is that which renders us more cautious, not that which produces despondency, the fear which is felt when the mind confounded in itself resumes its equanimity in God, downcast in itself, takes courage in God, distrusting itself, breathes confidence in God.
— John Calvin
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
— John Calvin
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
— John Donne
O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to'advance.
— John Donne