Quotes About Resilience

I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.

Lives have a way of getting on with themselves. But in the short run it will be hard.

What good is always being happy? Sadness hints at the possibility of a future reward.

I'm better off without the armor, because no matter how much I fortify it, no matter how well oiled the plates are, and no matter how tightly I weave the chain links, there's no way it can really protect me. An arrow can always slip through; a swung club could always bruise. And that's okay, really, because it is as much a part of my job to feel as it is to make others feel.

You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

She would never cry where her tears might be seen and counted against her.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

No god craves weaklings.

This new spot for life might be but a short journey as a winged creature covers it, that is often said, but, oh, Lord, as you know, I had not the wings, and it is a hot, hard ride by road.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

You know, I'm very near to bein' normal, but I just can't get over the hump.

The boys crept to her side at early dark to sit around her, mournful, with their heads bowed down like they wished they knew how to pray the oldest prayers and pray her well. Harold held a cool cloth to her swollen eye. Sonny made fists and said, 'What was the fight about?' 'Me bein' me I guess.' 'How many was it?' 'A few.' 'Tell us the names. For when we grow up.

Work need not be concentrated in offices, companies can be run from homes, newspapers can be put out with almost no one in the newsroom; time spent commuting can be reduced; business meetings can be replaced by digital connecting. These impacts will last after lockdowns are well in the past. It took three years after 9/11 and more than seven years after the 2008 financial crisis for air travel in the United States to recover to the previous levels.

It took two phone calls in 2009 to convince Charif Souki to turn around the business he was trying to build.

Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.

I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me.

My confidence comes from my fights and my training.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Confidence is key – once you have that, you are unstoppable.

You need confidence to play under pressure.

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Every couple needs to argue now and then just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive.