Quotes About Resilience

Was life measured by the trouble you avoided, or by the obstacles you overcame? God had made her for trouble, equipped her for hardship. She'd do her share and then some. Most of all, she'd buttress the man who faced the dangers for all of them. He wouldn't do it alone. Not while she had blood pumping in her veins.

But never close the door. As long as she has breath, she can change.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.

He was likely the only one who realized there was a will of iron under the porcelain.

It's perfectly acceptable to survive, even if others didn't.

Keep going, no matter what." --Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---

In your patience you shall possess your souls." Luke 21:19

This gift prevents us from weakening, from letting ourselves be disheartened, and it lifts up our courage in the midst of difficulties.

True strength of will is calm; in calmness it is persevering so that it does not become discouraged by momentary lack of success or by any wounds received. No one is conquered until he has given up the struggle. And he who works for the Lord puts his confidence in God and not in himself.982

Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on

Reginald Hill

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.

En los sistemas políticos siniestros, se vuelven siniestras también muchas de las personas que lo padecen; no son muchos los que pueden escapar a esa maldad delirante y envolvente de la cual, si uno se excluye, perece.

Pero hoy, se decía Juan, todo el mundo necesita hablar. De alguna manera inconsciente (con un chiste, con una palabra o con un grito) la gente necesita resumir el año. El inventario no tiene que ser exhaustivo, pero es imprescindible. Reflejará lo que nos falta y por lo mismo nos alentará a buscarlo

After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going.... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes.... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.

What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.

Mit dem Selbstvertrauen ist es wie mit dem Quellwasser. Es versiegt nur selten. Wer sie findet, diese Quelle im eigenen Ich, kann sie ein Leben lang nutzen. Alles Suchen, alle Umwege sind nichts als Verirrungen im Labyrinth der Möglichkeiten. Rückschläge und der erlittene Neuanfang speisen das Vertrauen in uns selbst. Denn nicht der Durst, Leiden schafft Leidenschaft.

Nur so aber hatte die Menschheit – den verschiedensten Umweltbedingungen ausgesetzt – eine Chance, sich zu entfalten und trotz Katastrophen zu überleben.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.