Quotes About Resilience

The next morning, walking about the charred embers of so many of his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven-year-old Edison said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew."4

Refuse to become a hopeless victim. God wants to heal your heart, fill you with the power of hope, and cause you to be bold in Him. Hope-killing giants look small when measured against Him. Be

Remember that people come into your life for a purspose, so if they leave it's because that purpose has been filled. So, when they leave, keep living.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Had I forgotten how to cry? Was that possible? In order to survive, I had long since buried my emotions.

It's easier to throw away a child who reacts to his abuse than attempt to heal his pain.

A story is the record of how somebody deals with danger.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

I've had hard coaches all my life.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

It's just life. You can't beat life.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.