Resilience Quotes

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

Of course I would have preferred success; but failing in that, I have no regrets for having rejected all advice to the contrary, and resolutely made the struggle.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.