Quotes about Resilience
If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't stop planting corn because weeds are going to grow beside it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge makes you strong, wisdom makes you powerful, and love makes you invincible.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The roots of the strongest tree grow deep.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.
— Lauren Kate
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
— Harriet Tubman
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
— Alexander Hamilton