Quotes About Resilience

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

1. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" 2. Prepare to accept it if you have to. 3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

There is only one way to happiness," Epictetus taught the Romans, "and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

prayer:   God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!

I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Those who keep the peace of their inner selves in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous diseases.