Quotes About Resilience

It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

I worked for Harper's Bazaar. They fired me. I recommend that you all get fired; it's a great learning experience.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.

When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

I don't think that anyone should ever give up on whatever it is that they dream of. Obstacles will come their way, but everything is a learning experience and it all works out for the good anyway.

Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.