Quotes About Resilience

I don't think you can create culture and develop core values during great times. I think it's when the company faces adversity of extraordinary proportions, when there's no reason for the company to survive, when you're looking at incredible odds - that's when culture is developed, character is developed.

The most resilient companies foster a pervasive culture of innovation at all levels of the organization - one that values risk-taking, embraces experimentation and considers failure an inevitable part of thinking boldly.

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

Might there be strength for the hard times, humor to ease the tense times, and shoulders always available for the times of tears

I tried to drink a cup of tea, but my hands shook when I lifted the cup to my mouth. I was on the verge of tears, but I knew that tears would do no good. I fed the fire, I prayed, I walked the floor, I prayed, I read my Bible, I prayed; and somehow this even longer second day of storm passed by, hour by hour.

When tragedy happens a real family pulls together, mine ripped apart.

father again." She had more that she was going to

Despite their poverty, their tragic pasts, their own sorrows, they stood before her in strength and spoke with a wisdom that defied their circumstances.

She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.

If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.

There was fear in those lovely young features, most certainly. No one but a fool would not be frightened at a time like this. But the fear did not possess her, did not dominate her. She remained strong and steadfast...

A central theme was recognizing what is in your control and what isn't—and acting on the one and ignoring the other. It's a philosophy that has resonated over the centuries. Reading

It's such a waste of mental energy to be furious that something isn't the way you want it to be. Fighting life is what causes problems. When you can accept life on life's terms, you pave the way for a measure of peace that you miss otherwise," she said.

The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole

the Apaches in Florida, she is left shattered. Still, while her heart is broken, her will remains as strong as ever, and she immediately sets off after him, vowing to free him from unjust captivity. But there is one obstacle she

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Bono had grown up in a lower-class neighborhood with a "constant sense that violence was around the corner." His mother and grandfather died within days of each other, and he and his brother were raised by his father, "a house of men, and all that goes with that.

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.

Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.

There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written.

Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.

Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed.