Quotes about Resilience

Fellow citizens! God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

She learned that women were braver than men. Braver and stronger. She learned that she herself could one day stretch open as wide as a window, and it would not kill her.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

As long as you are black, and you're gonna be black till the day you die, no one's gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you'll make it. Just pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd prefer to be referred to by his name rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief."]

Every time you compromise, something inside your spirit dies a little

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.