Quotes About Resilience

Stay strong. Don't worry about things you cannot change and don't worry about things changing that you cannot stop.

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

We have seen too much defeatism too much pessimism too much of a negative approach.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.

Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.

Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

Anyone can have an off decade.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.