Quotes About Resilience

in response to his request.

When the going got tough, you just kicked your own ass even harder.

prompted Knox.

There's one key difference between the Olympics and combat, Susan. You might have overlooked it." He paused. "In the Olympics, no one is shooting back at you.

engine, picked up the pages, ripped off the rubber band, and

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David Baldacci

felt her legs begin to give way.

Some make you sing and some make you scream, One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mache, Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. - Sweet Thing

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do

It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling, No! And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen. - Life on Mars?

An dem Tag, an dem du denkst, du kannst nicht mehr besser werden, fängst du an, immer den gleichen Song zu spielen.

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Redundancy is blessed, but efficiency is divine.

But then, of course, it could have been worse. This may not be the best of all possible worlds. But Pangloss never met Murphy. And things could have been very much worse, indeed. The pyramid loomed ahead, separated by a broad river from the main part of an alien metropolis that had once been named Cal'mari.

Always, before, whenever one culture went into decline, there were others ready to take up the slack. If Rome toppled, there was light shining in Constantinople, then the Baghdad Caliphate and in China. If Philippine Spain turned repressive, Holland welcomed both refugees and science. When most of Europe went mad, in the mid–twentieth century, the brightest minds moved to America. When America grew self-indulgent and riven by new civil war, that migration sloshed and shifted East.

Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

It seems to me that all our endless failures are adding up to a magnificent success. It's just not what we had in mind. It's real.

Ask people for suggestions on how to improve, and if they're going to reject you for being imperfect, let them do it and get it over with.

When you confront the monster you fear the most, you'll defeat your fears.

Or if you wish to put more of a barb in your comments, you can always say, "Yes, Mom, I have in fact decided to get out of bed in spite of the fact that you've been telling me to!