Resilience Quotes

“You moan, "She left me." "He left me,"Twenty more will come.”

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

“I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives.”

“We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.”

“Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.”

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

“Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.”

“He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.”

“Never give in, never give in, never give in.”

“We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

“You do your worst, and we'll do our best.”

“It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”

“The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.”

“What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.”

“Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.”

“First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.”

“Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.”

“May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.”

“If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.”

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

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

“Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.”

“I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.”

“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”

“Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”