Quotes About Resilience

When you decide to live a totally surrendered life, that decision will be tested. Sometimes it will mean doing inconvenient, unpopular, costly, or seemingly impossible tasks. It will often mean doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.

Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.

If you really desire to be used by God, you must understand a powerful truth: The very experiences that you have resented or regretted most in life — the ones you've wanted to hide and forget — are the experiences God wants to use to help others. They are your ministry!

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.

Somos produto de nosso passado, mas não precisamos ser prisioneiros dele.

your own. You have probably tried to change many times and have failed to maintain the changes.

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance" (1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT). It is love — not fear, not guilt, and not peer pressure — that causes us to keep going when we feel like giving up.

A lot of times we change, not when we see the light, but when we feel the heat.

The Bible says, "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance

God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out."49

The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.

For all the peril they faced, Leonard and Scott retained their British calm, sounding like two gentlemen discussing the weather.

Most of my life has been spent not understanding, and I can assure you, it was not easy.

Patience is all.

It's possible, I'm moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I'm so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.

THE HOUSE SLAVE Those days I lie on my cot, shivering in the early heat, and as the fields unfold to whiteness, and they spill like bees among the fat flowers, I weep. It is not yet daylight.

Hush, now. Assay the terrain: all around us dark and the perimeter in flames, but the stars— tiny, missionary stars— on high, serene, studding the inky brow of heaven.

When competitive advantages don't last, or last for a much shorter time than they used to, the strategy playbook needs to change. Leaders

Although dynamism and rapid change are all around us, people are not very effective when facing extreme uncertainty—it tends to be paralyzing.

limit the downside cultural and business risks.

Think about it: the presumption of stability creates all the wrong reflexes. It allows for inertia and power to build up along

stretch, instability, and multidimensionality are crucial to keep a company from getting stuck.