Quotes About Resilience

Give me a second to put on something a little less Almost Got Killed In.

You can't fight memories. They come whether you look for them or not.

When you're in hell, there's nothing left to fear.

I thought I was long done with the Firsts. First Easter since his death, First Birthday, First Trip to IHOP, First Phillies Game. But everything we ever did together, that we'd never share again--like Longwood Gardens at Christmas--still waited before me. In that moment, I dreaded the rest of my life.

You can't help what you feel." "I can try harder to feel something different.

Unwilling to play the hand that is dealt [to] him, the borderline keeps folding every time, losing his ante, waiting to be dealt four aces. If he cannot be assured of winning, he won't play out the hand. Improvement comes when he learns to accept the hand for what it is, and recognize that, skillfully played, he can still win.

only three ingredients are needed to be a successful fundraiser: Hard work, hard work, and hard work.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

Losing is the great American sin.

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Everybody have a problem in their life but, not everybody have the courage to face it

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

We must look hopeful.

it seems like there are ten lousy situations you can't do anything about, for every one where you can make a difference, it's all about putting your right foot forward, and just taking those small steps.

every warrior must face defeat and that defeat does not define the warrior any more than words define the heart of a lion.

verse of Scripture I often use in the face of failure with my own sins is Proverbs 24:16: "For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity." The person who is disciplining himself toward holiness falls many times, but he doesn't quit. After each failure he gets up and continues the struggle.

life is filled with such little events, little frustrations, little anxieties, and little disappointments that tempt us to fret, fume, and worry.

Whatever our particular calamity or adversity may be, we may be sure that our Father has a loving purpose in it.

Christians are viewed unfavorably in much of the world today and in many countries face outright persecution from hostile governments.

If you stop and think about it, you will realize that most godly character traits can only be developed through adversity.

to stop asking why.