Quotes About Resilience

The world has been wrong about you. They've hated your glory—just as the Evil One hates the glory of God. But we need your gift. Come forth.

To lose hope has the same effect on our heart as it would be to stop breathing.

Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.

There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.

Si hubiera pensado que eso era todo, que era mi corazón, me habría desanimado. Saber que mi corazón es bueno me permitió bloquear aquello en el acto.

For the religious spirit is like the flu—it is constantly adapting to the environment.

It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope. RABBI JONATHAN SACKS, Celebrating Life

Dear friend, this fear is a mighty powerful force.

Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.

Be men of courage; be strong. —1 CORINTHIANS 16:13 NIV

Make no room for offense.

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

When the going gets tough, the tuff get going.

Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.

Do not pray for easy times, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself. [ Speech at CIA Headquarters , November 28, 1961]

Life's not fair but not always to your disadvantage.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

we will do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard ...

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

This is a book about the most admirable of human virtues - courage. 'Grace under pressure', Earnest Hemingway defined it.