Quotes About Resilience

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

Leaders devoid of crucible experiences are likely to be overly confident about their ideas, and surprisingly more susceptible to fears; this is also true of children who are overly sheltered from facing challenges and experiences that help build their character. Courageously facing our fears in the difficult times gives us both humility and real confidence.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

You really think you can get away with punishing a detective who was shot by a deputy and two days later, despite her wounds and her place getting firebombed, caught the killer of a city councilman? She has your balls in a vise and knows it.

I jade fast," she said

She's suffered much worse than that," Duncan said. "Take a good, hard look at her." All heads turned to Eve. "She's only twenty-six years old. She's bruised, scarred, and filled with bird shot. How many times has she been in the hospital in the last five months? How many of her bones has she broken? She's paying a steep price for her bad decisions and is too arrogant and self-destructive to realize it.

Today it's just a wound. It takes a long time before you realize it's become a scar.

His father taught him that standing up for what you believe in comes with a price but that backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying.

The only baggage they brought with them was psychological.

She was unwilling to be a silent victim and fought for herself, loud and strong, not just against her attackers, but against the detective who didn't believe her.

I've reinvented myself many times over, picked up my broken wings and flapped till I could hop around again. I'm flying again now, in my bedroom, writing, looking out my window. I had no idea, until I began putting pen to paper, that so many memories were inside me waiting to be rediscovered. I'm very lucky. I may even come to know myself.

Some folks require the park's wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.

The heartbreak of this planet is healing. It may not seem so, but it is. Heartbreak is healing on a planetary level. That is why hearts are breaking. So, lead with your hearts both for yourself and for others. Where you share your love with others, you lead with your hearts. None of you acknowledge yourselves enough for this. And where you lead with your hearts, you the lead the way for others to open their hearts.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca