Quotes About Resilience

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

God won't allow anything happen in your life if it's not for your good.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

I like to see life with its teeth out.