Quotes about Resilience

It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.

Who is forced to struggle more than he who tries to master himself? This ought to be our purpose, then: to conquer self, to become stronger each day, to advance in virtue.

For when the grace of God cometh to a man, then he becometh able to do all things, and when it departeth then he will be poor and weak and given up unto troubles. In these thou art not to be cast down nor to despair, but to rest with calm mind on the will of God, and to bear all things which come upon thee unto the praise of Jesus Christ; for after winter cometh summer, after night returneth day, after the tempest a great calm.

Were God Himself the sole and constant object of our desire, we should not be so easily distressed when our opinions are contradicted.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

I think no matter what or no matter who you are you're always going to get some type of negativity, whatever that may be.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

One thing I have always believed in is to never give up.

Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give up and lose hope and change our system.