Quotes About Resilience

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

Change of any sort requires courage.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.