Quotes About Resilience

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.

His general shotmaking ability is optimum. He will try anything. "Look at the way he hit that ball, gave it the casual play," Graebner says to himself. "Instead of trying a silly shot and missing it, he tries a silly shot and makes it." If Ashe wins the next point, he will have broken Graebner, and the match will be, in effect, even.

What though the field be lost? All is not Lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And the courage never to submit or yeild.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

My parents believe in the principle of 'sink or swim,' or 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ? or it kills you." From "The Education of Robert Nifkin

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?