Quotes about Resilience
I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.
— John Malkovich
Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody's help in anything, and the smarter you are - and I'm not smart - or the tougher you are - and at times I thought I was pretty tough - the more trouble you have.
— Mark Lanegan
Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.
— Julie Andrews
You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.
— Joel Osteen
I learned about fighting from taking on the National Front skinheads outside Ilford Town Hall in the 70s - they were big men and we were 14 or 15-year-old boys.
— Nigel Benn
Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.
— Mother Teresa
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
— Bruce Lee
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
— Charles Swindoll
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day
— Corrie Ten Boom
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
In God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit...
— Rick Warren
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
— St. John Chrysostom