Quotes About Resilience

11th March, 1871.—I had a long, fierce oration from Amur, in which I was told again and again that I should be killed and eaten—the people wanted a "white one" to eat! I needed 200 guns; and "must not go to die." I told him that I was thankful for advice, if given by one who had knowledge, but his vehement threats were dreams of one who had never gone anywhere, but sent his slaves to kill people. He was only frightening my people, and doing me an injury.

But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

I'll NEVER be beaten!

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

It is in sudden testings that our treasure is revealed. St. Francis of Assisi

In accepting my lot, I also came to understand that suffering was universal, and that there wasn't anyone who was without pain of some kind; the difference between other people's suffering and mine was merely one of degree.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

God will never send anything your wayyou couldn't handle.

When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!

When you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God.

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.

The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee