Quotes About Resilience

You will never change what you tolerate.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

It's not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It's going to take a strong will. Sometimes, it may take courage. Sometimes nothing but faith in God and say, I refuse to be trapped in the past. I'm not going to let the past destroy my future. I'm pressing on. I'm straining forward, knowing that God has great things in store for me.

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can't hang with eagles.

God is able to bring good out of evil for those whom you meant to injure, and you who did the evil were left to suffer the unhappy consequences of it.

The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Thomas Jefferson still survives

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

He knew he would never let her down, but he also knew that he would not move until the time was right, no matter what pressures were brought to bear.

When love hurts you, friendship will heal you.

Don't let bad experiences, darken your mind and heart against people God brings into your life to bless you. Be a true friend always.

I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

This whole time, I thought it was some kind of prophecy. Like I was special, unique, and the universe had picked me for some reason. But that's not really true. It's like these cards. You get what you're dealt, but it's how you play them that matters.

There I stood, looking at myself in the mirror, thinking that I had come so far, I had worked so hard, and now the disease was threatening to stamp out all of my progress.

I didn't have a choice. The pain was just there. The clock would keep turning, and eventually it would be morning. I just had to find a way to get through.

Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have survived them all – at least till now.

13No temptationc has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be temptedd beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,e he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. Principle

21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Ronald Reagan said: "We are never defeated, unless we give up on God.

There is in me, deep down, as there must be in everyone–at least, I hope there is, for I would not wish to be alone in this–a part that does not care for anything other than itself. I could lose everything and everyone and that pilot light would still be burning at my centre, that steady flame that nothing will quench, until the final quenching.