Quotes About Resilience

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

God has really blessed me. He could've allowed me to keep playing, but instead he saved my life.

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.