Quotes about Resilience
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
— Khalil Gibran
The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.
— Erwin McManus
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
— Malcolm X
The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.
— George W. Bush
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
— John Milton
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
— Nelson Mandela
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.
— Euripides
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
— Helen Keller
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
— John Wooden
I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
— Dolly Parton
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
— Winston Churchill