Quotes About Resilience

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

Trials teach us what we are.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.

Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving out. Keep going.

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

At some point in life you have to face your fears.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

The only way around is through.