Quotes about Resilience
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
- Alice Walker
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
- Frank Herbert
I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
- Billy Graham
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
- Charles Spurgeon
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
- Joseph Addison
People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told,You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.
- RJ Mitte
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
- Herman Melville
No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
- Fred Hammond
Of course I don't have a big serve. I have other weapons. That's why tennis is a nice sport.
- David Goffin
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mahatma Gandhi