Quotes about Resilience

Have God make a message out of your mess.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.