Quotes About Resilience

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.