Resilience And Hope Quotes

#1. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

#2. Powerlessness is dangerous. For most of us, the inability to affect change is a desperate feeling. We need resilience and hope and a spirit that can carry us through the doubt and fear. We need to believe that we can effect change if we want to live and love with our whole hearts.

Brene Brown

#3. There is no protest to be lodged against loneliness - not all the bombing campaigns in history have made a dent in it.

Philip Roth

#4. My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.

Nikki Rowe

#5. She is deranged, but so so playful.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. I loved her for her beautiful soul and desired her for her beautiful body.

Richelle Mead

#7. The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

Philip Zaleski

#8. It's like the one Scarlet had.' He flipped the gun in his palms. 'She shot me in the arm once.'
His confession was said with as much tenderness as if Scarlet had given him a bouquet of wildflowers rather than a bullet wound.

Marissa Meyer

#9. Furthermore, we had witnessed over and over again that making opportunities for creative expression within a context of care and connection is a seemingly magical key for unlocking that hope and resilience. And it doesn't require the work of experts. We can all do this.

Peggy Taylor

#10. In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

Megan Smith

#11. Honorata's story reminds me of the extraordinary power of the human spirit to withstand almost anything. Her story also speaks to the power of service, to living a life of purpose, and to keeping the flame of hope alive. (175)

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy on a leash in the park. Follow the magic and magic starts to follow you.

Tama J. Kieves

#13. Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

Angela Y. Davis

#14. Because our brain's resources are limited, we are left with a choice: to use those finite resources to see only pain, negativity, stress, and uncertainty, or to use those resources to look at things through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience, optimism, and meaning.

Shawn Achor

#15. Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.

Shannon Mullen

#16. It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Bram Stoker

#17. But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Kathleen Norris

#18. He is a man of great strength, determination, and resilience, and we truly hope that he will use those qualities to make a moral comeback as complete as the physical comeback he effected from the cancer that nearly killed him. Time will tell.

Reed Albergotti

#19. If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

Ron Suskind

#21. The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing themselves into who they need to create the life they want. DON'T BE LIKE 'MOST PEOPLE.'

Hal Elrod

#22. Utopianism is, as Plato taught us at the outset, the fire with which we must play because it is the only way we can find out what we are. We need to criticize false understandings of Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly.

Allan Bloom

#23. It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.

Jane Goodall

#24. In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone but wife, children, and energy.

H.W. Brands

#25. Volpe expands their worldview and shows them that struggle and suffering are universal, but so are hope and resilience.

Michael Sokolove

#26. every time we allow ourselves to lean into joy and give in to those moments, we build resilience and we cultivate hope.

Brene Brown

#27. It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

Harold Bloom

#28. I can't make the fire go away," she had seemed to say, "I can't guarantee you won't get burned. But I can hold this hoop for you, I can remain steady and strong, because I believe in you. Because you are mine.

Mia Sheridan

#29. The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

George H. W. Bush

#30. When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle.

Gail Davis

#31. People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

David Brudnoy

#32. She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

Philip Zaleski

#33. The sense of falling did not touch her, not as long as her body was between the hands of this boy who felt steadier in the air than on the ground.

Anna-Marie McLemore