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Quotes About Resilience

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.
~ Azar Nafisi
Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.
~ Muhammad Ali
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
~ George W. Bush
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Great souls suffer in silence.
~ Friedrich Schiller
We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.
~ James J. Davis
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
~ Ernest Renan
The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.
~ Zig Ziglar
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
~ Lynn Redgrave
And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.
~ Homer
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
~ Steve Buyer
People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
~ Joel Osteen
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
~ Seneca the Younger
Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.
~ Richard M. Nixon
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
~ Ricky Williams
If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.
~ Murray Warmath