Quotes About Resilience

Acceptance is the heart of the stoic approach: you can lessen emotional pain if you accept that the "worst" may happen and focus only on what you can do to respond

We can focus on the ability to react to events rather than relying on the ability to predict them, on qualities like flexibility, confidence, courage, and perseverance.

you want to succeed, double your failure rate." I

survival in Nazi concentration camps "depended on one's ability to arrange to preserve some areas of independent action, to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

Or as the IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Little is known about Boyle's mother, other than that she was married at seventeen and proceeded to bear fifteen children in the next twenty-three years, then dropped dead of consumption, which by then must have come as a relief.

The cord that tethers ability to success is both loose and elastic.

IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." I

survival in Nazi concentration camps "depended on one's ability to arrange to preserve some areas of independent action

to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

in 1958, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 was sixty-one years. Today it is about twenty.

My crime is being Indian. What's yours?

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.

Obstacles cannot crush me...he who is fixed to a star does not change his mind

under the most painful conditions, where it would seem that there remains no room for hope or life—a human being, a being of the highest order, possessing a mind and a will, finds both hope and life.

like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

Îngrijitorii trebuie s? se menÈ›in? spre calea spre autofocusare, indiferent de r?spunsul pe care îl primesc din partea celorlalÈ›i.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.