Quotes about Resilience
Don't let your failures define you.
— Barack Obama
Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.
— Barack Obama
We are a people of improbable hope.
— Barack Obama
Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure—and make music that wasn't there before.
— Barack Obama
And then there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.
— Barack Obama
Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.
— Barack Obama
As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or
— Barack Obama
The trick is not caring that it hurts.
— Barack Obama
I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.
— Barack Obama
But know this America: we will meet them
— Barack Obama
Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.
— Barack Obama
The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.
— Barack Obama