Quotes About Resilience

President Abraham Lincoln said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

No, none of these things are the key. When it comes right down to it, I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don't: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Nothing else has the same kind of impact on people's ability to achieve and to accomplish whatever their minds and hearts desire.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

If at First You Do Succeed, Try Something Harder

You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you've been knocked down. Failing Forward

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.

Do you know the difference between leaders, followers, and losers? Leaders stretch with challenges. Followers struggle with challenges. Losers shrink from challenges.

people with a positive attitude focus their time and attention on solutions, not problems.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment more normal than arrival. —J.WALLACE HAMILTON

Those things that hurt, instruct." —Benjamin Franklin

Past hurts can make you bitter or better—the choice is yours.

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

There is no achievement without failure.

Leaders who leadershift must be like water. They have to be fluid. Water finds a way, then makes a way.

Positive thinking does not always change our circumstances, but it will always change us. When we are able to think right about tough situations, then our journeys through life become

If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.

Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly. Mistakes become failures when we continually respond to them incorrectly.

Failure isn't failure if you do better the next time.

The Norwegians have a saying that I think captures their attitude: There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.3

Author George Matthew Adams stated, "What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you." Every problem introduces you to yourself. It shows you how you think and what you're made of.