Quotes about Resilience

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

A few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!

As Christians, regardless of what cause we may have to be troubled, there is greater cause not to be.

Doubt they had ever heard anyone sing in that dungeon before.

No matter how many times you failed or have fallen, no matter how many times you've denied God, He will not deny you.

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.