Quotes About Resilience

I let the slide linger, so the audience could follow the arrows and count my tumors. "All right," I said. "That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Iskustvo je ono što dobiješ kada ne dobiješ ono što želiš. Iskustvo je tako?er najvrjednija stvar koju možeš ponuditi.

it's a better mindset to help me get through each day.

Ne želim napustiti Tigra u meni. Ne mogu ni zamisliti da se pretvaram u Sivka. Netko me upitao kakav bih natpis želio na nadgrobnoj plo?i. - Randy Pausch: živio je trideset godina nakon terminalne dijagnoze - odgovorio sam. Vjerujte mi da bih u tih trideset godina unio mnogo veselja. Ali ako to ne može biti, onda ?u to veselje unijeti u sve što sada radim.

Tenacity got me over the brick wall.

brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." In

While I could easily feel sorry for myself, that wouldn't do them, or me, any good.

All right," I said. "That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

every Disney story needs a villain, and mine happened to be a certain dean from the University of Virginia.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar,

sometimes, the most impenetrable brick walls are made of flesh.

I knew for sure that I didn't want the lecture to focus on my cancer. My medical saga was what it was, and I'd already been over it and over it.

That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted...It's a phrase worth considering at every brick wall we encounter, and at every disappointment. It's also a reminder that failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential.

I was heartbroken, but I was not deterred. I would find a way around this brick wall.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

This is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

No retreat. No reserves. No regrets.' These were the same phrases Patrick had written in his Bible,

I couldn't bring this sorrow home. Couldn't tell my wife. Wouldn't tell my children. As my friend Edward Dee says, we live in the worst twenty minutes of someone else's life. So I leave it behind . . . where it happened . . . where it belongs . . . not in my house.

Sometme later that afternoon I met a friend who was covered in gray dust and limping. I noticed he had a few small cuts on his hands, too. I asked him if he was okay and he said, "I'm walking and talking . . . I'm not bitching about anything." In retrospect, that seemed to sum up the attitude of people at Ground Zero who survived when the buildings collapsed. They might have some injuries but they had perspective.