Quotes about Resilience

Fourthly, As to the difficulty of procuring the necessaries of life, this would not be so great as may appear at first sight; for though we could not procure European food, yet we might procure such as the natives of those countries which we visit, subsist upon themselves. And this would only be passing through what we have virtually engaged, in by entering on the ministerial office.

Yea, and so abundant were they in the three first centuries, that ten years constant and almost universal persecution under Dioclesian, could neither root out the Christians, nor prejudice their cause.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.