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Quotes About Resilience

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.
~ Faith Whittlesey
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
~ Antonio Gramsci
The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.
~ Gabor Mate
Music gives strength to the soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
~ Lucretia Mott
Your knowledge of failure is the way for the new phase of it!
~ Hesham Nebr
Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.
~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
~ Mason Cooley
I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.
~ Dorothy H. Rath
You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan "press on" has solved a lot of problem.
~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
~ Colin Powell
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
~ Barbara Sher
Leadership is not for the faint of heart
~ Bill Hybels
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
~ Charles de Gaulle
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
~ Jack Welch
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
~ William Bridges
The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?
~ Dan Quayle
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
~ John C. Maxwell
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
~ C. T. Vivian
Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.
~ Myles Munroe