Quotes About Resilience

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl.

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.