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Resilience Quotes


"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."


"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."


"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."


"Unity breeds strength, and discipline forges resilience - the recipe for overcoming any challenge."


"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."


"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."


"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."


"Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life."


"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done."


"Enough pain will keep you humble. Enough grief will keep you compassionate. Enough trouble will keep you strong. Enough hardship will keep you grateful."


"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."


"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."


"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming."


"A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure."


"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."


"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."


"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."



"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."


"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."


"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."


"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."


"You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!"


"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."


"I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down."


"Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."


"The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow."


"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."


"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."


"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."


"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."


"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."


"It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born."


"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?"


"It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way."


"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."


"Everyone suffers personal setbacks. If you're experiencing difficulty in your career or personal life, keep it in perspective - by persevering through your difficulties, you're building a stronger personality in you. Never give up!."



"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."


"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."


"Overcome obstacles as they come rather than worry about when they will arrive."


"...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight."


"When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you."


"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."


"You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance."


"There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it."


"Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul."


"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."


"The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted."
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