Quotes About Resilience

Listen to positive music, watch positive videos or movies, hang out with positive, upbeat people. The last thing a blue mood need is more blues. Don't be volunteer victim; be a fighter.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, they can't find them, MAKE THEM.   —George Bernard Shaw

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. Many

housekeeper. She enlisted friends with their own small children to mind us while she worked for wages. When she took us in, Mama had absolutely no idea of how she was going to support us. She knew she wanted a family, so she made us that and then proceeded to so do whatever it took to keep us in shirts and dungarees and food. Many

Tough times don't last, tough people do."     Motivational

We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.

People who are HUNGRY go for their dream, against all odds. They believe as Dexter Yager who said, "If the dream is big enough, the odds don't matter!

People say, "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings," but many people quit while she's just clearing her throat! Don't quit! Bet on you! When life introduces interruptions, when challenges block your path, bet on you!

Shoot for the moon- and if you don't get what you want, you'll still be among the stars. By making big plans and working for them, you change. You become somebody else. So even if you fail and don't get what you planned, you're somebody else. You'll say, "That's ok, I'll go do this other terrific thing.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going!" ~Billy Ocean~

You must tell yourself, "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it.

As long as life holds forth possibilities, NO ONE can be counted out. Go after your goals. Live your dreams.

If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...

Storing up pain, nurturing your hurt, plotting revenge - all these punish you more than they do the backstabbers.

It's like you've been in a terrible accident and had your arm amputated," she told him. "After a while, the pain goes away, and eventually you even learn to get along without your arm. Some days you're sad that you're missing your arm, and some days you're angry about it, and some days you're okay. But, no matter what, no matter how long it's been, you never stop missing your arm.

he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

As Tara walked down the corner past the vacant lot that once was the unofficial refuge for kids on the street in Halifax, she realized just how far they had both travelled from that dark end of the street, just how far they had travelled from the front steps of Hell's Hotel.

Sometimes you'll win, sometimes you'll lose, but you must never run away.

But — but — it's twelve miles,' they spluttered in chorus. 'You can't walk. It's impossible! It's too far!' Strolling along the empty road in the sunshine, between the paddy fields spreading flat to humpy hills, I didn't care even if they were right.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

The boy who had survived by blending into the background had to accept that he would now be thrust into the foreground, into the unrelenting eye of the world.