Quotes About Resilience

I broke my arm in 3 places so I wont be going back to those places.

Life for all its gains pierces in ways that leave scars, where I've bled, I've lived

I have one of those real old American-built cars. The kind that just punches through accidents.

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

My mother thinks that what keeps me going is a well of spitefulness.' ... 'I think she's right. I can feel it right here.

We are what circumstances make of us

If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

I finally know that joy does not come from avoiding a problem or having someone else deal with it for you. Joy comes from overcoming a problem or simply learning to live with it while being joyful.

manageable problem. "If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this fact, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

It is impossible to experience fear, hate, or defeat when we are laughing.

Struggles often serve to release the wisdom, patience, and strength we all possess but too seldom demonstrate." —JIM STOVALL

and better, makes us all proud. But let us never forget that, when you've lost everything that you own, but you still have your friends and family around you and the desire to go on, you still have everything.

T" is for Tenacity.

whether you're missing

poverty in a family of twelve children.

believed that God is always a good God. Facing difficulties, he lost his job. His home was about to be taken and all seemed hopeless. Braxton prayed

Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

Don't give up, don't ever give up.

I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.