Quotes About Resilience

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target.

Instead of internalizing a bad situation, externalize it and face your enemy. It is the only way out.

Your enemies, those you stand sharply against, will help you to forge a support base that will not desert you. Do not crowd into the center, where everyone else is; there is no room to fight in a crowd. Polarize people, drive some of them away, and create a space for battle.

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Commit harmless mistakes that will not hurt you in the long run but will give you the chance to ask for his help. Masters adore such requests.

Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

This is the essence of the surrender tactic: Inwardly you stay firm, but outwardly you bend.

In the battle of the intelligent against the brutal and the aggressive, the surrender tactic is the supreme weapon.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education.

you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge

1658) REVERSAL

Be like a slippery ball that cannot be held: Let no one know what gets to you, or where your weaknesses like.

Be like a slippery ball that cannot be held: Let no one know what gets to you, or where your weaknesses lie.

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture.

To show your frustration is to show that you have lost your power to shape events; it is the helpless action of the child who resorts to a hysterical fit to get his way. The powerful never reveal this kind of weakness.

Destroy the weeds of envy by giving them nothing to feed on.

Often we try too many things at one time, thinking that one of them will bring us success—but in these situations our minds are diffused, our efforts halfhearted. It is better to take on one daunting challenge, even one that others think foolish. Our future is at stake; we cannot afford to lose. So we don't.

Você é único, e sua singularidade tem um propósito. É preciso encarar todo retrocesso, fracasso ou dificuldade como provações ao longo do caminho, como sementes plantadas para a colheita futura.

I have always believed," he later wrote, "that when a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.

Occasional mistakes are inevitable—the world is just too unpredictable. People of power, however, are undone not by the mistakes they make, but by the way they deal with them.

Power requires self-discipline.

Although we might enter these situations with excitement about what we can learn or do with our new skills, we quickly realize how much hard work there is ahead of us. The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt.

Use Resistance and Negative Spurs Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. —50 Cent