Quotes About Resilience

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

The human body has limitations; the human spirit is boundless.

Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough.

I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity...

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is the one who endures that the final victory comes.

The only one who can tell you You can't is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike

When we pass them, show no signs of weakness. Look strong.

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

Be happy. Persevere.