Quotes about Resilience

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he feels, or from what side the wind of instability blows.

Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?