Quotes About Resilience

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

When you're always taking the next healthy step mentally and physically, you're as in charge of your life as you can be. But what happens after you take that action—how others react to you, whether you get that job or that award or that opportunity—isn't something you're in charge of. Wallowing in "what ifs" doesn't do you any good; in fact, it's a distraction from taking the next positive, powerful, passionate step forward.

When you look back at your life, I bet you can think of quite a few situations that happened, things that seemed like setbacks, but of which you can now say, "I'm so glad that happened!" Everything happens for a reason. I believe that with my whole heart.

Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.

I don't want to give up anymore. I want to be strong and stand for what I think even in the face of those most spiteful.

Take your eyes off what you lost.

I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for.

We've been doing many of these (Covid safe) things for months. But as we seek to reach – and then maintain – COVID Normal, they'll still be as important as ever.

If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us—but we can defeat ourselves.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. —RUDYARD KIPLING, "THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER

I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

I have never been lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone, when asked if he ever got lost out in the wilderness, replied, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was once bewildered for about 3 days.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." -

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. — Daniel Boone

I'm going to wake up. I'm

You can't prevent mistakes, but you can solve problems graciously.

to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together.