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Resilience Quotes


"The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build."


"A diamond only truly appreciates pressure the day it begins to shine."


"As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation."


"If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next."


"Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe, it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on."


"Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting."


"Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory."


"Challenges stimulate courage."


"Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down."


"Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death.A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, 'Screw it, I'm going out in style!"


"I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P. H. D in life from the school of hardship."


"Life challenges are real. You can overcome each challenge by grace."


"The sever pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy."


"You must never surrender to any defeat."


"It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover."


"No matter how deep the whale swims, it will always surface."


"You can crush a rose, all it will do is give off perfume."


"Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh."


"In storms look for rainbows, in sunshine prepare for storms."


"The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build."


"It hard to stop the person determined to press onwards."


"It's through delayed gratification that patience comes."


"The past only dies so the future can live."



"Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind."


"If you don't like to change, you would not be able to live in a fast changing world."


"If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down."


"You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims."


"Use negative situations to gain experience."


"A paradox of life; be it good or bad, joy or sorrow, comfort or discomfort, appointment or disappointment, encouragement or discouragement, deception or loyalty, faithfulness or unfaithfulness, a good day or a bad day, things in life never remains static. Things keep moving and things keep changing. Seconds keep galloping, minutes keep changing into hours and hours keep turning into days. Free your mind from such things which are capable of crippling it from thinking distinctively. Notwithstanding the situation, keep moving to the purposeful land."


"Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse."


"You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships."


"No matter how many failures and disappointments that you have encountered lately, never stop believing in yourself. You still have endless success left in you."


"The sky won't shed tears if stars refuse to shine, it will wait for the sun."


"When you hit hard tough stuff, do you feel flattened because of it or rebound in a new direction to keep living, loving, moving, and growing? Improving your bounce-ability factor will help you rock your resilience to handle setbacks, adversity, and challenges with confidence."


"No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway."


"It might seem like your whole world is falling apart, but I can honestly assure you that it is absolutely not. Think about how many times in the past that you thought that your world was falling apart but finally didn't?"


"The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all."


"Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you're going to get knocked down again."


"As long as you have hope, you can survive any harsh condition."


"Never get discouraged because you got fired."


"It is easier for stars to shine in darkness, that is why dark times come into your life."


"We need to remember that our fight is spiritual. Our battle is a fight of faith, will, long suffering, and persistence."


"Joy is so deeply rooted in our souls that it is not tossed about by the waves of circumstance."


"In suffering, we build our strength for the ultimate success."


"You are right, I do fall down a lot. But that wouldn't be true if I never stood back up."


"When you achieve excellence, expect some to oppose you. When you achieve brilliance, expect several to resent you. When you achieve greatness, expect many to envy you. When you achieve transcendence, expect plenty to hate you."


"In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going."


"Pain frees you from complacency. Tears free you from sorrow. Weaknesses free you from pride. Adversity frees from boredom. Challenges free you from monotony."
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