Quotes About Resilience

I hoped her mood would pass, but it looked as if something essential inside her had slipped away. Shell shock. Fatigue of battle. War neurosis. Apparently, it didn't take long to strike.

Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. —Mother Jones

What a thrilling story of wartime survival!

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'

Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go — and then do it.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life. . . . Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go.

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

many people think that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. But there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go - and then to do it.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes hold your head high look it squarely in the eye and say "I will be bigger then you. You cannot defeat me

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself; the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

thinking otherwise is to inhabit them differently, to envision how to recast the resilient impingements and damages to which imperial forms give rise.

At least one challenge is not to imagine either "the postcolony" or the postcolonial imperium as replicas of earlier degradations or as the inadvertent, inactive leftovers of more violent colonial relations. It is rather to track how new de-formations and new forms of debris work on matter and mind to eat through people's resources and resiliencies as they embolden new political actors with indignant refusal, forging unanticipated, entangled, and empowered alliances.

I won't ever again allow doubt to come in and dissolve my ability to live life as fully as I can.

A Positive Attitude makes a Powerful Mind." --Mrs. Pike from The Babysitters' Club book Hello, Mallory

Just 'cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong man, a good leader. No one had ever seen him with his head bowed in despair or defeat, no one had ever seen him slump in resignation, nor had anyone ever had even so much as a hint from him that he might ever give up. It was hard to picture all that strength drained from my father's body.