Quotes About Resilience

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down.

We have lost the courage to hope.

Totisesti on olemassa hetkiä, jolloin elämä on meille liian suurta, jolloin kaikki tyynni on liitossa meitä vastaan pettääkseen ja tuhotakseen toiveemme; silloin ihminen on kuin kulkija, joka on metsässä kadottanut suuntamerkit tai joutunut maanalaiseen luolaan, missä törmää kivimuuriin, kääntyipä minne hyvänsä.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

In my judgment, such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.' 

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.

Zombies never die. They only rest in pieces.

In the middle of a negotiation, what they planned to ask for suddenly seems ridiculous, excessive, too much. If this happens to you, hold on tight to the information you've collected, and don't suddenly revise your goals downward. Focus on your target and fight the impulse to concede too quickly. After all your hard work, don't make the mistake of walking away too soon.

Focus on your target and fight the impulse to concede too quickly.

We have to be able to endure bullying, stonewalling, and the anger of the other negotiator without faltering. We should be prepared to propose ultimatums and hold firm even when we see that our stance is making the other negotiator frustrated or unhappy.

Presenting her case calmly and positively, even in the face of his angry outburst, won the rest. "His first instinct was to bully me," she said. "But when he saw that that wasn't going to work, he settled down and we mapped out a plan to get me started with my own clients.

If it's my day to die, then I will die... Death is quick and final. Survival is long and hard.

I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don't run just because we get sacked a few times.

You're facing it now, and it's never too late.

At its best, parenthood was a challenge. At its worst, it was a struggle through quicksand.

crying by this time, but so was I, and I wasn't ashamed. Grief had a way of sneaking up on a person. It lay in wait and pounced when your back was turned. Or it clung with sticky fingers twenty-four/seven, giving no reprieve.

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive -- it's leadership!

They have locked up my body, but can imprision neither my mind nor my soul.

Life is a river that never stops flowing. You can dam it, you can harness its power, you can poison it, but you can't stop it. A river never ends. It changes course and cuts through the land. It floods and damages and kills. It can be weakened by drought. But it never stops. It is the fundamental giver of life.