Quotes about Resilience

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement. One elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!

Criminal Minds, All You Can Eat: "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.