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Resilience Quotes


"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."


"Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy."


"Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present ."


"If her daughter's ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And Admiral Miriam Solovy did not break."


"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."


"We don't get to choose what happens to us-but we always get to choose how we react to it."


"When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom."


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


"No matter how heavy the challenges we face in our life, embrace optimism, perseverance, tenacity and courage. Never lose faith and hope and a generous heart who live and breathes with a timeless love."


"There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while."


"When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself."


"God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!"


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


"Your ability to readapt in the face of change will instill confidence, improve agility, foster psychological safety, and make you more resilient in life and in business. Your re-adaptability will serve you well to thrive in most any situation or environment."


"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."


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


"The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think."


"Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening."


"It is never prudent to bury our heads in the sand when in distress or faced with adversity, to place our hands over our eyes in a feeble attempt to hide from the inevitable."


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


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


"If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again."


"Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you."


"From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort."


"My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you."


"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."


"In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to."


"Someday we will forget the hardship, and the pain its cause us; we will realise, hurt is not the end. lessons appear to teach us strength, we learn happiness is an inside job and to cure our insanity we must not fear what is to come, but believe in what we've been taught."



"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."


"Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways."


"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."


"It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had."


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


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


"Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person."


"Do not complain, pray for courage to endure the situation."


"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."


"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience."


"Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken."


"Never despair but if you do work on in despair."


"The opinions of others cannot damage you."


"I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up,And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction."



"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!"


"A good half of the art of living is resilience."


"If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can."


"Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair."


"She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain."
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