Quotes About Resilience

Shaped by a childhood of uncertainty, he aspired to be self-sufficient in business

the illness left one leg shorter than the other.

but she was now better equipped to withstand his loss than she had been a few years earlier.

Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism.

Yet he was more vulnerable to criticism than he admitted.

Had he known what lay ahead, it seems doubtful that he would have persevered.

While Tarbell's articles were running, Rockefeller, his wife, his son, and two of his three daughters were afflicted by serious medical problems or nervous strain.

It often saves me much annoyance.

Never deterred by restrictive laws, Flagler switched his legal residence to Florida and applied his influence with state legislators.

Hardly a period of his life was free of illness and depression.

No longer at the mercy of unpredictable economic forces, he thrived even in recessions.

Though he brushed off his critics as minor irritants and professed faith in his own integrity, it could not have been easy to face such universal opprobrium.

At first, Rockefeller swallowed his anger and stoically endured this injustice.

The whole dismal parade of career hacks and self-promoting political generals on the Union side had been weeded out, giving way to a new fighting breed.

I bore it in silence. It does no good to dispute with such a man.

When they didn't flinch, Rockefeller launched an all-out attack.

and awaited instructions.

Even as a young man, Rockefeller was extremely composed in a crisis. In this respect, he was a natural leader: The more agitated others became, the calmer he grew.

She never entirely recuperated.

Her hardships tapped some deep reserve of strength and wisdom in the simple country woman

Such repeated shocks must have stripped Alexander Hamilton of any sense that life was fair, that he existed in a benign universe, or that he could ever count on help from anyone. That this abominable childhood produced such a strong, productive, self-reliant human being—that this fatherless adolescent could have ended up a founding father of a country he had not yet even seen—seems little short of miraculous.

but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

That this abominable childhood produced such a strong, productive, self-reliant human-being - that this fatherless adolescent could have ended up a founding father of a country he had not yet even seen - seems little short of miraculous.

Her husband was not so brave as she.