Quotes About Resilience

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting.

Let not it be said that you failed,because you never tried. Believe in yourself and your dreams you will pursue..The choice is yours and it's all up to you,to just do..

When all hope is lost, don't you dare give in..look up with a grin,and just win..

The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Who has no house now will not build him one.

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses — would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Those who refuse to take a step toward their goal because it does not at once reach the goal are likely to stand still or move backward.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.