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Resilience Quotes
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
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"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
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"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
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"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."
178
"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger."
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"Unity breeds strength, and discipline forges resilience - the recipe for overcoming any challenge."
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"In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined."
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"Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life."
100
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
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"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done."
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"The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow."
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"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."
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"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming."
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"Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in."
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"Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That's only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds " as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history."
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"Enough pain will keep you humble. Enough grief will keep you compassionate. Enough trouble will keep you strong. Enough hardship will keep you grateful."
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"If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer."
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"A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure."
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"He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape."
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"It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort."
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
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"You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!"
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"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."
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"It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born."
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"Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane."
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"But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important."
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"When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose."
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"It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way."
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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
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"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."
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"Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."
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"I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through."
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"I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down."
63
"I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression."
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"The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is."
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"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
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"It doesn't matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?"
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"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
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"The only way out is through."
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"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."
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"Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul."
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"You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be."
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"When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet."
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"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair."
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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
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"So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important-self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes."
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