Quotes About Resilience

humility was the key to staying focused and to keeping a winning mind-set, as well as the key to accepting setbacks and turning them to positives.

Failure is not final, and I always have said it is fertilizer for future success.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

than 3,500 lawsuits in his life. That's almost 50 lawsuits a year, since birth.

Depression is a big fucked-up monster. Everyone gets a turn, whether or not they want to own up to it. It's a hard fight that fucks you top to bottom. Drains you hollow. And when you're finally rid of it, there's something about having overcome it that robs you of compassion.

It might be harder than you imagined it to be -- it might take longer -- but you can change things, Marik. Your life is significant. As low as you are . . . there is only room to rise. But you have to let go.

If you know someone who is discouraged because his fight isn't won yet, speak to that person truthfully and forthrightly, the way a commanding officer would speak to his troops.

many pagans harbored ill feelings about Christians and widely believed them to be antisocial, contrary, incompliant, intolerant, narrow-minded, nonconformist, inflexible, obstinate, and uncompromising. That means if many Christians today feel like they take the brunt of hostility from an unbelieving world, they can rest assured that this has been felt by myriads of believers in times past.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

We will plant our feet firmly on the solid rock of God's Word and refuse to be moved by spirits of seduction that are luring the rest of the world into deception offered in a myriad of forms.

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

It's okay," he said. We're together." He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.

I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.