Quotes about Resilience
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.
- Sofia Vergara
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
- Maya Angelou
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Washington Irving
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
- Les Brown
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
- Jim Elliot
None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.
- Mark Vonnegut
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
- Mark Vonnegut