Quotes About Resilience

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Last, but by no means least, courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle_ the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Douglas MacArthur

Americans never quit.

Age wrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

All around us we have the wreckage – metaphorical and real – of all our dreams, our religions, our political ideologies and a thousand other aspirations, all of which in their turn have proved false. And though we have no more illusions or ambitions left, yet we are still here. So what do we do?

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Before you tell me how to do it better, before you lay out your big plans for changing, fixing, and improving me, before you teach me how to pick myself up and dust myself off so that I can be shiny and successful—know this: I've heard it before. I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

Working to keep negative information out during a difficult conversation is like trying to swim without getting wet.

change forces us to learn differently.

We need to lose less often in the fight against the bad guys. Or, at least, lose more gracefully and recover quickly.

You have to have that rare combination of thick skin and a tender heart. Most writers get it backward and have a tender skin and a thick heart... Every critic, however ill-informed, represents a point of view which is likely not limited to just him... Sometimes you will disagree with your critic, but you can always gain from him.

Our God is able to deliver us, but even if He does not, be it known, o king, that we will not consent to applaud the use of a man as though he were a woman.

Did you know that there are places in the world where women can just drop the child in the field, and go on with the harvest? What does that suggest to you?" "Third world? Grinding poverty? Gross infant mortality rates?" Bradford guessed.

God shakes what can be shaken so that what cannot be shaken may remain (Heb. 12:27).

as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything.

For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.

May the world enjoy a year that is free of hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, drought, and political speeches, which produce the most wind of all.

she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath.

Even if jobless we should never be effortless!

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me!