Quotes about Resilience
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
— Francis de Sales
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
— Francis de Sales
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
— Francis de Sales
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
— Saint Jerome
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.
— Saint Jerome
But Our Lady allowed this trouble to befall me for the good of my soul; without it, vanity might have crept into my heart, whereas now I was humbled, and looked at myself with profound contempt. My God, Thou alone knowest all that I suffered.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.
— Samuel Beckett
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
— Samuel Johnson
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
— Samuel Johnson