Quotes About Resilience

And you would be docile strung up by your ankles," Tobias said smoothly. "One stroke. Now try again.

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

It's not how you fall in life, it's how you get back up.

I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

It's mistakes that make us who we are.

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

I'd always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself- people like to see that.

In the midst of despair, that's where God invades and works most.

Agile processes of all kinds share one thing: they embrace change, approaching it as an opportunity for growth, rather than an obstacle.

anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.

When I wanted to quit smoking cannabis a few years ago and found that I couldn't do it under my own steam I went in search of a self-help book to show me the way. Annoyingly all I could find were books on how to cultivate the damn stuff. So to exact my revenge on the world of publishing I decided to one day write that book myself.

Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea's lung with cannabis. It's actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel.

Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!

I wasn't lost, because I didn't allow myself to think I was. Being lost is a state of mind.

Failing is not losing. Failing is growing. Quitting because you failed is losing.

This life we endure - how strange, yet how jolly

To survive, Byzantine society and politics folded itself around the state.

He always talked about going out gangster, like Scarface. When he fell, though, he had tears in his eyes.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

She looked as if she had been mauled by a tiger.