Quotes About Resilience

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Not the five feet of water to your chin but the inch above the tip of your nose.

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.

Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

You swallow hard, thinking to yourself, 'It must be all right, thousands of people have done it before.' Then... 'But this time it's me — that's the difference!'

At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.

On this Very Street in Belgrade" Your mother carried you Out of the smoking ruins of a building And set you down on this sidewalk Like a doll bundled in burnt rags, Where you now stood years later Talking to a homeless dog, Half-hidden behind a parked car, His eyes brimming with hope As he inched forward, ready for the worst.

I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

While you sit Like a rain puddle in hell Knitting the socks Of your life.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that?

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.