Quotes about Resilience

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.

I've kind of developed an attitude where sometimes you've got to relax and you've got to go with the flow.

Don't feel sorry for me.

And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.

If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre. But the reality of South Africa was the arrests and detentions and oppression - we could not escape that, so we decided to take it on.

...After hardship, God will bring ease.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

There is no better test of character than a man's treatment of difficulties. The coward shuns them; the lazy man tries to go around them; the idler dawdles in front of them, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up or some miracle to remove them; the baby-man waits for some friend to lift him over them ; but the manly man surmounts them.

It was no ordinary DESIRE that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of waste of time. It was a BURNING DESIRE! AN OBSESSION!