Quotes About Resilience

Mandela said once in an interview: No matter where you are in life, there is always more journey ahead. And I think of one of Mandela's favorite quotes, from the poem Invictus, which sustained him during those moments when he thought his journey had been cut short: I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Pero, ¿y si resulta que estoy jugando lo mejor que sé, si me preocupo, si quiero ganar, y aun así no soy el mejor del mundo? Eso, dímelo tú. ¿Y si no lo eres? Creo que preferiría morir. Me apoyo en la barandilla y sollozo. J. P. tiene la decencia, la sabiduría de no decir ni hacer nada. Sabe que no hay nada que decir, salvo esperar a que se extinga el fuego.

Life is a tennis match between polar opposites. Winning and losing, love and hate, open and closed. It helps to recognize that painful fact early. Then recognize the polar opposites within yourself, and if you can't embrace them, or reconcile them, at least accept them and move on.

Ya encontrarás una solución, me dice J. P. ¿Cómo? ¿Qué solución? No lo sé. Pero la encontrarás. Ésta es una crisis momentánea, Andre. Una de tantas. Y, tan seguro como que estamos aquí sentados, vendrán otras. Grandes, pequeñas y de todas las gamas intermedias. Enfréntate a esta crisis como una práctica para las crisis futuras.

Never let your success go to your head, Never let your failures get in your heart

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

But I'd run two miles and when I stepped inside our cool, dark house, I yelled up the stairs to Mom, "I ran two miles with Daddy, Mom! I'm strong! I'm strong!" And I punched the wall and could feel the plaster and lath behind the wallpaper, though I had no words for them.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

Our true strength appears at our weakest moments

We all learn our strengths and weaknesses throughout life; don't allow your weaknesses to be your greatest strength by default.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us; we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry us through the trials which may lie ahead.

Cerul acela nu ne mai sorbea, îns? durul s?u cristal nocturn ne strivea.

Homophobes are the bitch of living.

Everyone wants a world without sadness, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

To learn you must first fail

Your brilliant first flop was a raging success! Come on, let's get busy and on to the next!" She handed a notebook to Rosie Revere, who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.

Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.

Your brilliant first flow was a raging success! Come on, let's get busy and on to the next!" She handed a notebook to Rosie Revere, who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.

The only true failure can come if you quit.

Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.