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Quotes About Resilience

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
~ Seneca the Younger
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
~ Thucydides
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
~ Austin O'Malley
You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
~ Paul Brunton
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~ Thomas Huxley
All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.
~ Teresa of Avila
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
~ Samuel Beckett
Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.
~ Douglas Pagels
Learning patience takes a lot of patience!
~ Tim Hansel
Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
~ Andres Segovia
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A stumble may prevent a fall.
~ Thomas Fuller
Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.
~ Theodore Tilton
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
~ John Flavel
You have to have patience in this field.
~ Walter Schloss
If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
~ Leonardo da Vinci