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Resilience Quotes


"Becoming unshakeable through this storm."


"A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand."


"If you can't forget about all the great pains you've endured, as many of us can't, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you've somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you've certainly kept growing, because of it all."


"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."


"Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly."We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference."


"Don't be afraid of criticism, the tallest trees are always confronted by the strongest winds."


"We only fall on our face to learn how to rise on our feet."


"Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you don't know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head!"


"The road to success is paved with doubters and haters."


"Keep your eyes on your dreams, not on your haters."


"As long as there is life, there is a potential; and as long as there is a potential, there will be a success! You will sprout again when cut down! You will rise again even when you fall!"


"Life has pounded me downand thrashed me around,Time and time again,But I always get right back up,Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain."


"The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops."


"There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable?"


"One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will."


"The strong overcome several trials. The determined overcome numerous trials. The resilient overcome many trials. The extraordinary overcome countless trials."


"A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine."


"If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine."


"No matter how deep you bury good seeds, they always find a way to rise."


"You are tougher than the challenges you are currently faced with. They cannot break you without your consent. They are only temporarily there to make you stronger and wiser. Therefore, think positive, walk with faith, and courageously grow from them."


"Don't be shaken by the circumstance."


"Even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lighting or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail - time and time again."


"In the midst of the disappointment, we find faith as an anchor!"


"The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life's winds blow against you."


"The ocean is never afraid of wind rising against it, it creates beautiful waves instead."


"Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance."


"Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward."


"Diamonds are formed in pressure, that is why God allows you to go through difficult times."


"Blessed are you who endure life trails."


"As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school."


"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."



"Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up."


"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."


"What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed."


"Allow yourself to make mistakes. There will always be times in your life when you fail but you can make that failure into a success by choosing to learn from it. Tomorrow is another day and another chance to succeed. Try again."


"When you are not afraid to fail, you will always win."


"Pure heart begets pure thoughts."


"Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy."


"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."



"You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you."



"Truly," remarked Nandi as we entered a darkened tunnel, "it is amazing that you have not died yet, mistress." "Well, hang in there. The night is young."


"Tough people in your Life only make you TOUGH !"


"If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure."


"One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pain drives out a lesser one. A strained muscle disappears before toothache, toothache disappears before a crushed finger. He hoped - it was his only hope now - that the pain of cancer, the pain of dying , would drive out the pains of love. It did not seem likely."


"Never underestimate the grace of bouncing back from a fallen heart."


"Turbulence breaks a tree's branches, but only tickles an eagle's wings."


"Rise above storms. Sail against tides. Succeed against the odds."


"Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumstance."


"A man with a victim mentality feels like being a victim who is complaining and crying all the time."


"Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient lines about eyes and mouth. A tiny grave in that very cemetery accounted for some of them; and some new ones had come during the recent illness, now happily over, of her little son. But Mrs. Allan's dimples were as sweet and sudden as ever, her eyes as clear and bright and true; and what her face lacked of girlish beauty was now more than atoned for in added tenderness and strength."
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