Quotes About Resilience

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. Th ey make mistakes, but they don't quit

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

When a person is understanding of situations, they are more likely to remain in control of their emotions during situations, even when the situations become chaotic.

And what good did it do? Squirrel and other vermin reckoned you hid grain in the ground just to dare them could they find it and dig it out.

Truly the Filipino rises to his finest self during trying times, the more trying the times, the finer the rising. Or it is in times of disaster that the Filipino ceases to be a disaster, thinking of others first before self.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield . . . a strength at last in times of trial.

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

those who soar the highest, fall the hardest. Watch out that you don't take a tumble.

Viata pe pamant e ca un torent. Trebuie sa-l traversezi inot pentru a ajunge pe celalalt mal. Grijile de capatai ale omului de pe pamant sunt de a nu fi purtat de torent. De moda. De noutati. Doar animalele moarte, cadavrele, sunt duse de curent. Trebuie sa tii capul sus daca vrei sa inoti bine.

Muito mais trágico me parece o destino de quem atravessa a vida sem se molhar, como se os efeitos (felizes ou nefastos) escorressem sobre a pele como água sobre as plumas de um pato.

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which habitually force us into circumstances and situations we hate and abhor.

Alberta was back again. Back to it all, to all that was warped and desultory, to the lies and evasions and small, hidden irons in the fire, to humiliation and hopeless longing, to the grey road of uniform days. To live in spite of it, to live on as best she could, with her two warring natures: one that willed, no-one knew how far - one that could let itself be bound any time and anywhere. To live and lie and listen her way forward, to seek haphazardly in her tomes, to wait and see...

All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

So what you face is a month of being absolutely wide awake, on an operating table and being operated on without anesthetic, while doing some of the hardest work that mankind has ever found.

Learning is never failure.

I'm always happy. But I often experience a bit of a wobble before I take off—a short period of time when all my doubts gang up against me.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.