resilience Quotes

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.