Quotes About Resilience

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.