Quotes about Resilience

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

There is no freedom without bravery.

I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim no matter what happened… Never made excuses, and she never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said, Do you have a brain? And if the answer was yes, then she said, Then you could have thought your way out of it.

The best way to respond to distracting personal attacks is to practice bringing the conversation back to the issue at hand. Never fall into the trap of engaging in personal attacks while letting the topic of conversation slip into the background. Doing so allows your opponent to escape the need to explain her position.

Proverbs 16:32, which says that mightier is the man who can control his temper than the man who can conquer a city.

I'm convinced that much of the success I have experienced in life is a result of learning from my failures.

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn... When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows it's time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready, your spirit knows you are.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.

Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walked the streets of Jerusalem, 1,734 million people alive on this earth today call themselves by the ever-dividing, ever-uniting word: Christian. God is still scattering the seeds a few righteous renegades planted in a city called Antioch. Had they only known what they were starting.