The Resilient Leader Quotes

“More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“No failure, disappointment, or crisis is too great for God to redeem. Only we can limit ourselves by failing to dream and risk again.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Failure offered me a better destiny.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Success is moving from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“There is no loss without pain. Yet there is no change without loss.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Getting better requires humbling ourselves before the Lord.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Once you’ve experienced any emotional pain, the pain is imprinted on your inner being and remains there until you intentionally resolve it.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“they refuse to cry, because they don’t ever want to feel again the anguish and the pain they’ve locked away inside. Abused individuals often don’t cry for the same reason.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“The unresolved painful experiences of our past lead us to make unhealthy decisions in the future.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Be quick to forgive (Matt. 18:21–35).”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Be kind and tenderhearted to one another (Eph. 4:32).”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Take wrongs patiently. Be willing to suffer for doing good (1 Pet. 3:8–17).”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Love your enemies. Pray for those who treat you badly (Luke 6:27–28).”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“The anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“God has our best interests at heart and wants to work on us in order to work through us.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“The key to surviving and thriving in leadership often rests in increasing our self-awareness.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Successes teach us very little. A successful design doesn’t tell us how close to failure it might be.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“To determine whether you are truly thriving, you must also consider your eulogy virtues—the virtues others will extol at your funeral. These are the character traits at your core, the deep internal part of you where it’s not always comfortable to look for any length of time.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“If I am successful in my chosen calling in life, I am thriving. But that’s not entirely true. There are many seemingly successful people in and out of ministry who are nevertheless miserable.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“A leader should always approach a crisis from the perspective that God has something to teach him or her. Adversity is a pathway to refinement.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Leaders aren’t just born. They’re made. You can never stop learning. You can’t lead from the back. You have to take care of your people first.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Critical people can be toxic, foment gossip, and undermine your efforts.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“Critical people are unsafe and should not be members of your ISSN, your leadership team, or your circle of influencers. While helpful at times, their critical input over time fosters a negative climate and discourages vulnerability and healthy discourse by others. Critical people can be toxic, foment gossip, and undermine your efforts. They will not help you build on your strengths, they will rarely encourage you when you need it, and they will be tempted to use your vulnerability against you. Critical people can be prone to mobbing, which promotes an unhealthy, unsafe culture.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“By nature, critical people are inclined to find fault or to judge others with severity and often too readily.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“The consummate model for a safe person is Jesus. He was a perfect blend of honesty, compassion, and commitment.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better

“anger in a leader rarely produces good results.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better