Quotes About Resilience

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

The formula for a successful relationship is simple: Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

When I was a child my ineptitude was a burden to my parents and my teachers. They could not see that it was a greater burden to me. I wondered wanly if I would ever discover how to do anything well. At long last I have learned something even better - how not to do anything at all.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

You might not want to do it, but you can do it. In fact, a case could be made, if you can't do it, you don't deserve to eat pork.

La edad de una persona puede determinarse por el grado de dolor que experimenta cuando entra en contacto con una idea nueva

Well, listen, anger doesn't get anything done, so you have to find out: How do you make it work? That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. I can solve a puzzle—a problem just stresses me out.

Learn to deal with the valleys, the hills will take care of themselves.

Thank goodness for hearts that wouldn't die, for spirits that still danced even after they'd been wounded.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

she never asked. She waited for the shrapnel buried in his soul to work its own way to the surface.

For often even the sad can become happy by displaying strength and firmness; they are not made happy by lightheartedness, nor by frivolity, laughing, or joking, which is the companion of shallowness.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

52% of the Fortune 500 have been merged, acquired, bankrupted, or fallen off of the list since 2000." (2013)

Bootless grief hurts a man?s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment