Quotes About Resilience

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth.

We tend to thrive when we see opportunities for growth, not when we are in defensive mode.

the energy of the human spirit can override even severe limitations of physical energy

Character is best thought of as existing in two distinct but related categories of competency – performance character competency and moral character competency. Performance character consists of specific acquired strengths usually necessary for high achievement and performance: focus, persistence, resilience, confidence, positivity, decisiveness, courage, tough-mindedness, ambition, reliability, discipline, fortitude.

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Mr. Gaddis admitted the school wasn't much to look at before dropping the first match and lighting another. "But it's better than nothing." It is nothing! I screamed. Inside my head, of course. And I might even have said it out loud except I was too shocked to open my mouth. Johnnie Hatter's hole in the riverbank is probably better than this.

No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way.

A nation does not have to be overrun by a foreign enemy to be utterly destroyed." Rather,

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

An objective loss is impervious to how you feel about it or react to it. It's not subject to anyone's appraisal; it must be accepted without evaluation.

trading is not about discovering a great strategy for making money but rather a matter of learning how to lose.

It is the loss side on which you must focus first

That taught me that there are people for places, places for people. You can do some things and you can't do other things. Don't get all upset about the things you can't do. If you can't do something, pay someone else who can and don't worry about it.

Success can be built upon repeated failues when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise, failure can be built upon repeated successes when the successes are taken personally.

Acknowledging that losses are part of business is one thing; taking and accepting those losses in the markets is something else entirely.

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

There is nothing better than having to struggle and make your own way.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.