Quotes About Resilience

Hard times destroy the weak and strengthen the strong. Soft times weaken everyone.

I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the spring

Please don't take my wings...

Somehow I felt better toward him, knowing that he had possessed some instinct to fight back. It was something I needed to believe - that all men possess, somewhere, the dignity to value their own lives. If only enough to scratch the arm of the one who throws you to the wolves.

I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning in the moldies." - Cher

Therapists have long known that may depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

you have to be able to survive mistakes in order to learn, and you have to learn in order to create sustainable success

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.