Quotes about Resilience
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
— Anonymous
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.
— William Barclay
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
— Anonymous
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
— George Eliot
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
— Anonymous
He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.
— Anonymous
Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.
— Anonymous
I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
— Oscar Wilde
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer