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Quotes About Resilience

When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.
~ Autumn Morning Star
It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don't feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.
~ Shannon L. Alder
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never tell a child that something it's too hard
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
~ Maggie Georgiana Young
Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done
~ Marge Piercy
You won't shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character, " I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
I'm willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.
~ Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
I have never been sad because my losses are my profits
~ Praveen KC
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.
~ Germany Kent
Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. "Nothing holds me here.
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, 'Oh Crap, She's Up!
~ Anonymous
If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.
~ Lee Smith, On Agate Hill
My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.
~ Shan Sa, Empress
A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Spiritual highs help you overcome emotional lows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I Am Female. Empowered, powerful, and greatness!
~ Stephanie Lahart