Quotes About Resilience

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Character is that which can do without success.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength