Quotes About Resilience

I'm going to make the best choice I can and if that turns out not to be perfect, I'll keep my eye on it, analyze it, and modify it as I go.

pretense of perfection can kill your enthusiasm as well as your ability to move forward. Don't indulge it. Mistakes are part of the growing process. Some of the greatest innovations have come as a result of things going awry. A senior leader once told me that it's okay to make mistakes as long as you don't make the same mistake twice.

one action at a time will get you there. Once your goal has been achieved, acknowledge the courage it took and how you have grown throughout the process. Don't stop—find another stretch goal to tackle. Confidence is about stepping up over and over again, looking fear in the face and moving ahead anyway.

Confidence is about showing up and moving forward as we are, not having it all together and never making mistakes. When we allow for mistakes, we are growing. The question then becomes, how do we deal with the discomfort of hearing constructive feedback so we can process it and move forward?

Confidence is about stepping up over and over again, looking fear in the face and moving ahead anyway.

Sometimes a person had to do certain things in order to survive the hard life of a single woman with a heavy burden of responsibility to bear.

Please keep in mind that no matter how strong, fast or coordinated you are, there is always someone stronger, faster and more coordinated.

One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.

he went on strike and withdrew into the sulking corner of the religiously disappointed.

You know," Baba continues, "Pakistan has a lot of strong, independent, and brilliant women, in history, and today. Groups like the Taliban may be trying to hold them back. But the women will prevail. I know they will.

I've done it before. I can do it again" is the mantra of this pressure solution.

Feeling challenged is an inherent performance steroid—your body releases more adrenaline than noradrenaline, which means the smooth muscle in your blood vessels dilate, as do your your lungs, and now you have more oxygenated blood going to the tissues that need it. Your body has more energy and your brain can think more clearly.

The philosopher Epictetus said more than two thousand years ago, "Man is not troubled by events but rather how he interprets them.

The goal: for Ax to become familiar with feeling pressure so that he could learn to ignore it and do his job, no matter how stressful it got.

The logic of this pressure solution is the opposite. Since high-pressure situations are inevitable, you might as well get used to the feelings of pressure, so that you are able to perform at a high level in spite of pressure.

The fact is we each get multiple chances over and over again in life. Keep this in mind, and you will find your life less pressured.

To counter and prevent primal pressure thinking, you need to underexaggerate or generate thoughts that minimize the significance of the pressure moment.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

If at first you don't succeed . . . so much for skydiving.

I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.