Resilience Quotes

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill.

The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirit strong, even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation. Your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

He makes the basic point that it is not so much the disability one suffers from that matters but one's attitude to it. The man who says: I will conquer this illness & live a happy life, is already halfway through to victory.

If calamities had the weight of physical objects we should long have been crushed down, or else, we should by now have been hunchbacked, unsteady on our feet, and with faces full of gloom and utter despair. Yet my entire body throbs with life and is full of expectations. Each day brings a fresh stock of experiences and new dreams.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Do not look the other way; do not hesitate. Recognize that the world is hungry for action, not words. Act with courage and vision.

Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.

And yet however hard the battle will be, we will not surrender. Whatever the time it will take, we will not tire. The very fact that racism degrades both the perpetrator and the victim commands that, if we are true to our commitment to protect human dignity, we fight on until victory is achieved.

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

Keep moving, for it may well be that the greatest song has not yet been sung, the greatest book has not been written, the highest mountain has not been climbed.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

We can say that our feet are tired, but our souls are rested.

We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point, in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. Be concerned about your brother.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

If you are going through hell keep going.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford-we have no right-to look back. We must look forward.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.