Quotes About Resilience

When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.

When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!

Jerry B. Jenkins

Success is like a turtle climbing a mountain. Failure is water running downhill.

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

Whenever your child loses a game, has a setback, or makes a mistake, wait a day and then ask this thought-provoking question: "Why are you a better athlete now than you were before that loss or mistake?

Champions distinguish themselves from all others in that they are willing to sacrifice, suffer, and do everything that the nonchampions will not do.

this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

I remember thinking, "Well, but I wouldn't have to be that funny anyway. I would just have to be funny enough to buy a loaf of Wonder bread and a jar of Skippy peanut butter a week." I could easily survive on that.

Adulthood is the ability to be totally bored and remain standing.

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

He said even if it's too cloudy to see, the sun will still rise, it will still be there. But that's the whole point, I said. Seeing it. Is it? he said.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.