Resilience Quotes

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.

It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do... I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records