Quotes About Resilience

I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.

During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

History isn't through with me yet.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Error has never approached my spirit.

You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.