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Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You don't win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.
~ Michael J. Sullivan
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
~ Herb Caen
I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.
~ Corey Taylor
There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
The best cure for anger is delay.
~ Seneca the Younger
Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
~ Courtney Love
There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.
~ Greg Norman
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
~ Aristotle
Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.
~ Barbara Park
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.
~ Paul of the Cross
Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
~ Elie Wiesel
It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
~ Janet Morris
As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.
~ Elizabeth Scott
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
~ Craig Johnson
Anger should never be an overnight guest.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.
~ Rumi
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
~ George R. R. Martin
A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
~ Courteney Cox