Quotes About Resilience

The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack

What I offer in this book are stories of hanging in, the practice-based evidence from working with our most challenging students,

Life is far too short to bear malice, I always say. You play the cards you're dealt, as I did once with Richard Harris at Shepperton Studios. The fact that I lost every penny I had -- he wouldn't play house rules -- and that he wouldn't even give me the fare home matters not a fig and is now so blurred in my memory it is hardly worth mentioning.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

The Sweeping Aside Motion This means, the past is in the past. Helping your teen win the war isn't about questioning what you could have done yesterday. It is about establishing a battle plan for what you are going to do today, tomorrow, and beyond.

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising put down at gunpoint.

You must throw your whole being against the lifetrap—your thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

However, when there is a major setback, the counterattack collapses. When this happens, they often fall apart and become very depressed.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Celebrate effort, not victory.

Attitude allows you to see the possibilities when opportunity strikes -- because it often shows up in the form of adversity. How well do you spot opportunity?

Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

A cornerstone of the Toyota Way is "challenge

Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain. —Swedish proverb

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

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