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Resilience Quotes



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


"As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I've learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined."



"There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their voices could be at the beginning, it would still be heard and justice be served."


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


"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."


"Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all."


"One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life."


"She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form."



"I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur."


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


"You're not going to always hit a home run in life. You're going to strike out! You're going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. They're afraid to even get on the field, and you know it. The fact that you get back up there, unafraid, going after that next home run, makes you the person you are."


"Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair."


"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."


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


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


"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."


"I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger."


"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."


"Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important."


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


"We all go through some tough times, but unfortunately, some of us let theirs define the rest of their lives instead of growing from them."


"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."


"I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."


"When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again."


"Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live."


"Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive."


"I'm a master of speaking silently-all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."


"Sometimes you try to fly and you fall. Remember your falls are not fatal, they're just a little painful. Endure the pain, clean the blood stain, you'll surely gain! Get up and fly again!"


"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."



"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."


"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."


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



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



"High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."


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


"Blessed are you, who faced many adversities. You will be strengthen and soften."


"To be the best you must be able to handle the worst."


"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."


"A winner endures all pain."


"You know what's sexy? A person who's been through a life challenge, and comes out with insights, more depth, and a fiery passion to face forward, forward, forward!"



"There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."


"People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too."


"People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead."


"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."


"His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart."


"Struggle strengthens the human bond and lightens the burden of the human condition."


"You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving."
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