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Quotes About Resilience

There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.
~ Lalah Hathaway
Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
~ George Benson
Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.
~ Rodney Yee
There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
~ Caroline Kennedy
I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
~ Bill Walton
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
~ Annie Dillard
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
~ Robert James Waller
"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."
~ Alexandra David-Neel
I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
~ Herbie Hancock
The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.
~ David J. Schwartz
Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do.
~ Barack Obama
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
~ Rem Koolhaas
The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.
~ Pierre-Georges Latecoere
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
~ Chris Cornell
Take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work.
~ Tom Welling
If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
~ Lily Tomlin
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
~ George Bernard Shaw
With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.
~ Sean Paul
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
~ Ralph Marston
People work harder when conditions are worse.
~ Jeff Goldblum