Quotes about Resilience

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.

Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.