Quotes about Resilience

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.