Quotes About Resilience

I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.