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Resilience Quotes
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
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"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
37
"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
36
"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."
34
"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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"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."
20
"Unity breeds strength, and discipline forges resilience - the recipe for overcoming any challenge."
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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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"Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life."
15
"A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure."
13
"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming."
11
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
10
"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."
9
"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done."
9
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
9
"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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"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
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"You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance."
7
"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."
7
"Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."
7
"All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted."
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"When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you."
6
"I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in."
6
"I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me."
6
"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."
6
"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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"Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all'ora successiva. Non c'era abbastanza spazio nella mia mente per mettere insieme tutti quei pezzi, per trovare le parole per riassumerla nella sua interezza.Ma la parte dell'"andare avanti", per quella le parole le avevo.'Trova un modo per andare avanti' dissi. 'Non deve necessariamente essere buono, o nobile. Basta che sia un motivo.'Conoscevo il mio: c'era una fame dentro di me e c'era sempre stata. Una fame piA1 forte del dolore, piA1 forte dell'orrore. Continuava a mordere anche dopo che ogni altra cosa dentro di me si era arresa. E quando finalmente le diedi un nome, scoprii che era qualcosa di molto semplice: desiderio di vivere."
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"The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow."
6
"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."
6
"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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"There was something indomitable about Maria " like Britannia. He'd heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwards she was discovered calmly taking notes, recording the way the land hand risen, for publication, she said."
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"Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening."
5
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
5
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
5
"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."
5
"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
5
"The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted."
5
"I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down."
5
"To deal with life and her many challenges, you have to have thick skin like a rhinoceros."
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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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"When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet."
5
"Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person."
4
"What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad."
4
"A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud."
4
"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."
4
"...you have to keep things in perspective, even when you are in the middle if a personal crisis. Fear breeds fear and worry builds upon worry. You can't stop feelings of grief, remorse, guilt, anger, and fear that wash over you during difficult times, but you can recognize them as pure emotional responses, and then manage them so that they don't dictate your actions."
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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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