Quotes About Resilience

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

We firmly believe in the power of unity and feel that it is easier to get pass hardships and challenges as a team. This gels us and keeps us strong.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

Any form of art is a form of power.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Or, I don't know, how about this: the important thing isn't what's gone or lost, it's seeing and knowing what's still there and how it can grow.

Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter, makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.

Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her once again stirred, once again whispered, "Get up. Keep walking. Don't stop.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.

Sometimes," Al said slowly, "sometimes self-reliance is the key to survival, but other times cooperation

The poor (horse) had sure got a reason to be mean, and I guess he's at the point where he figgers no human is his friend any more.