Quotes About Resilience

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.

Bitterness usually stems not so much from the other person's actions as from the effects of those actions on our lives. Consider the following scenario in your life.

You see, it is the effects of your being fired, not the act itself that determines whether you are tempted to become bitter.

God wants us to walk in obedience—not victory.

There is a vast difference between failing and becoming a failure. We become a failure when we give up—when we stop trying. But as long as we are working on those sinful habits, regardless of how often we fail, we have not become a failure, and we can expect to see progress.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That's what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.

Playing video games and making comics didn't look like raw materials for success. In fact, what we were doing looked very similar to fucking around.

Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife, by Walker Evans (version published in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men). From a print in a private collection, trimmed under Evans's direction and signed by him in 1971.

My big takeaway was that you lace up your skates, you put on your helmet and you get on the ice knowing all the rules. If you get blindsided, that's just part of it; if your teammate doesn't pass to you and takes the shot himself, that's the game, and if you lose 4–0, that's the game too. You just go out there and do your best with what you've got.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

The experience of war never quite leaves a young man or woman. A great many are utterly destroyed by it. All are indelibly and subtly marked by it, because, for good or evil, the memory never quite leaves any of us." Col.

Today I will do what other's won't, so tomorrow I will do what others can't.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

I will do today what others won't, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

I will do today what others wont, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

Love is hard sometimes. Life throws all kinds of things at us, and some aren't too pleasant.

Dreams are just to show us the way, to give us courage when the road gets hard, and to give us hope when we find the thorns on the rosebush. Dreams are neither evil nor to be rejected.