Quotes About Resilience

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

Fear defeats more people than any other one ting in the world.

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past – they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

Have no fear of the future.

I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday.

"No weekend, all weakened."

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.

"Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station."

"We are all of us failures – at least, the best of us are."

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat.'

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

"…My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi…"

So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.

God, please help me! I can't go through

God promises to make something good out of the storms that bring devastation to your life.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That's the best kind of life.

Once you learn how to create your own happiness, no one can take it from you.

The greatest secret to happiness and peace is letting every life situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. Then, make the very best of it.

Job said, "Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face."

"Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord."

I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurt, and fail.