Quotes About Resilience

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

And I'm telling you now the frustration The future's facing from the anger in the nation.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

Africa is the future.

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.

The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

Don't regret your past...It has shaped you. Don't fear your future...It is yours to shape.