Quotes About Resilience

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Without patience, you will never conquer endurance.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

Patience is the key to any battle.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.