Quotes about Resilience
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.
- Beth Moore
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
- Desmond Tutu
I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
- Oprah Winfrey
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
- Francis de Sales
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
- Jesse Jackson
I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
- Nicole Kidman
The brave only know how to forgive.
- Laurence Sterne
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it, of a great mind.
- John Tillotson
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
- Abraham Lincoln