Resilience Quotes

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

My mother is a very strong woman. We were seven kids; five of them passed away. My elder brother and I are alive. My mother lost five kids, her husband, her parents and siblings. But she is so strong, she is living for the people who are alive.

People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

It's been kind of tough, but tough people last.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Action is the antidote to despair.