Quotes About Resilience

Light always overcomes darkness.

I had to learn to praise Him regardless of what my emotions felt like doing. I had to learn to praise him even if my body did not want to.

No matter how much I stir, my soup still sticks to the pot.

In Martin Seligman's words, 'Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part about repair and damage. But the other side is unbaked. The side of strengths, the side of what we are good at, the side…of what makes life worth living.

As the wit W. C. Fields advised: 'If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There is no point making a fool of yourself.' This advice is easy to give and difficult to put into practice, but as you build your strengths, sometimes making great progress, sometimes slipping back, take comfort from the fact that this is how a strong life is supposed to be lived.

The grit of the deathbed earth grows soft

Humanness is a window thrown against a wall.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

I have turned to work again and again over the years as an antidote to the pains of life. Work is the best alleviator of sorrow I know, and once again, it is standing me in good stead. So I will work--and cry on my own time.

Creative power can pull down mountains of evil and level hilltops of injustice.

Press on and keep pressing. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk—CRAWL.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

It's always good to be underestimated.

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back!

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.

success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur

His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless. His suit coat fluttered behind him, and his arms swung easy as he walked.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

A system generally goes on being itself, changing only slowly if at all, even with complete substitutions of its elements-as long as its interconnections and purposes remain intact.