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Quotes About Resilience

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
~ Marianne Williamson
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
~ Frederick Douglass
I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.
~ Luis Bunuel
[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.
~ Vincent de Paul
You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.
~ Sean Swarner
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
~ Suzanne Collins
Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better
~ Chris Colfer
False hope is worse than despair.
~ Jonathan Kozol
There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.
~ Marshall Ganz
Hope is a thing with feathers
~ Emily Dickinson
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.
~ Pittacus Lore
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
~ Saint Augustine
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
~ Cat Stevens
The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.
~ James Alan Gardner
Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
~ DeVon Franklin
A man without hope is a man without fear.
~ Frank Miller
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Where there's dope, there's hope!
~ Philip K. Dick
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope.
~ George Matheson
If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world, you've got to allow yourself to be walked on
~ Tommy Barnett