Quotes About Resilience

Any attempt to attack, defend, or withdraw will work against you. Instead, you must restrain these reactive tendencies, find the courage to stand your ground, and then step forward in the face of this determined opposition.

you will never get your ducks in a row.

One of the most important functionalities is durability: the capacity to thrive over a long time without dependence on resource-consuming maintenance regimes.

Every now and then you know it's kinda hard to tell... but I'm still alive and well!

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.

The Rise of Black Wolf

Tree limbs scraped at her face and arms, snagged and pulled at her jeans and backpack. Thick wild growth, practically impossible to walk through. But Paige kept moving, banging her walking stick against the trees and brush, feeling herself moving in a downward slope.

He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

People did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group.

insistent opening bark of the UPI's Helen Thomas:

Manion's people did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group. "For America

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

When the stakes are the biggest is when the challenges to focus can be the most difficult and the most costly.

Humility stops you from overestimating your own significance and it enables you to accept, understand, and live with failures and learn from them constructively.

Humble people share the credit of their success, and accept their failures with courage and character.

Muhammad Ali said, "Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

performance is your greatest ally in dealing with adversity, and focus is your greatest weapon in achieving that performance.

Discouragement often comes from focusing on the wrong things. It also derives from a lack of patience, which is a virtue we are losing in our society.

Succeeding in difficult times means perseverance, and that trait is not prevalent in these times. We are the now generation.

you can develop all of the wonderful traits you need to succeed—focus, humility, toughness, and passion—but if you quit when things become difficult or when you become discouraged, they all are worthless.

Whether we bring them on ourselves or they are forced upon us, difficult times come, and it is what we do once they have arrived that is important.

I am a slow walker," Lincoln said. "But I never walk backwards.

adversity does not mean that you cannot experience victory—