Quotes About Resilience

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Courage is exhilarating.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.