Quotes About Resilience

Persistence wears down resistance.

Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear; Try, try again.

the best fishing is done in the most stormy waters.

If your portfolio risk exceeds your tolerance for loss, there is a high likelihood that you will abandon your plan when the going gets rough.

The most important investment ability of all is emotional discipline.

it is the duty of shareholders to periodically suffer loss without complaint.

What ever happened to mental hygiene?" he asked rhetorically. "It doesn't exist—and never did. When you went through high school, you were never taught how to deal with stress, how to deal with trauma, how to deal with tension and anxiety—with the whole list of mood impairments. There's no preventive maintenance. We know how to prevent cavities. But we don't teach children how to be resilient, how to cope with stress on a daily basis.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction