Quotes About Resilience

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Failure's a natural part of life.

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.