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Resilience Quotes


"You are only greater than what you overcome."


"If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything."



"If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?"


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


"The only way out is through."



"The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I'm choosing to stand up taller. I'll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I'll never stay on the ground."


"A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt."


"I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through."


"When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind."


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


"There is no failure in life, there are only those who don`t know how to succeed."


"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!."


"Try not to pay attention to those who would laugh at your mistakes and failures; they never mattered in your life, and will never do."


"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"


"You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it."


"Adversity or time of trouble is an opportunity to either fall or stand, fail or pass, faint or be strong. The choice is yours."


"Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!"


"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."


"In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined. In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."


"Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake."


"Great souls carry great burdens."


"When all is lost, but life, really nothing is lost."


"Don't quit when you encounter an obstacle. Adapt a new strategy to conquer it."


"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."


"After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever."


"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."


"If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size."


"The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on."



"Oh, how long were the days of a man.When he strode upon the broken land.He sailed as far as a man could steer.And he never wished to lose his fear.For the fear of man is a thing untold.It keeps him safe, and it proves him bold!Don't let fear make you cease to strive,for that fear it proves you remain alive!I will walk this broken road,and I will carry a heavy load!So come at me with your awful lies,I'm a man of truth and I'll meet your eyes!"


"We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."


"Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us."


"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."


"There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."


"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."


"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."


"Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul."


"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."


"A star never loses its shine, not even in the dark."


"Maybe you're not breaking down.Maybe you're breaking through."


"No struggle, no success. The stronger the thunder, the heavier the rainfall."


"It is when things are at worst you will get the best."


"Challenges are part of life. We only need grace to endure."


"Pity is unto the bird that takes refuge and stands on the tall tree with shallow roots to boast with their sweet melodies for they shall sing a harmonious dirge the day the strong storm will arrive. But the birds that shall build their nest on the tall tree deeply rooted in the soil shall smile and sing hallelujah when they see the storm coming from afar."


"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."


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


"If there's any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it's that I'm on my feet. Now all I've got to do is alter my direction."


"If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great."


"People with a distinctly displayed fear of failure, when they encounter more complicated tasks of a problem nature, the quality of work becomes worse, while it improves in case of people with motivation for success."
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