Quotes About Resilience

Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!

Waylon Jennings

The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place. This is not easy to do.

Brooks punished them in drills on the ice and gave them a 300-question test to assess their psychological makeup off it. He was relentless. If they couldn't take this small sampling of life under Brooks, they wouldn't last through one Olympic practice shift.

Remember that suffering will change you, but not necessarily for the better. You must choose to grow better not bitter.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." CHARLES H. SPURGEON

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much." MOTHER TERESA

Suffering will change us, but not necessarily for the better. We have to choose that. And it was the choosing that made all the difference for me.

Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep within them - just beneath the wound - lies a profound spiritual vitality, a quiet knowing, a way of perceiving what is beautiful, right, and true. Since their early experiences were so dark and painful, they have spent much of their lives in search of the gentleness, love, and peace they have only imagined in the privacy of their own hearts.

If we believe that this particular pain is the one that will push the baby out of the womb and into our arms, we somehow try to make a place for that pain in our heart. Pain is still there: excruciating, terrible pain. But at the moment of birth, we rarely feel betrayal or rage; we somehow feel that this is simply pain that has come with life.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.