Quotes About Resilience

There's an Arabian proverb that says if you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.

More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.

Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go, Life is a barren field frozen with snow.

One of the paradoxes of life is that the things that initially make you successful are rarely the things that keep you successful.

Adversity doesn't build character; it reveals it.

It's easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.

Rule #1: You will learn lessons. Rule #2: There are no mistakes—only lessons. Rule #3: A lesson is repeated until it is learned.

Rule #4: If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.) Rule #5: You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.

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

What happens to a team when one or more of its members constantly play out of position? First, morale erodes because the team isn't playing up to its capability. Then people become resentful.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.

If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?

Think about a rubber band. It is totally useless unless it is stretched. When insecurity keeps us from stretching and growing, we end up with a life that is as unexciting and useless as a limp rubber band. Confidence

Esto no se acaba hasta que hayas aprendido de ello".

Author Napoleon Hill noted, "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." To develop persistence over the long haul, you have to cultivate inward determination on a continual basis. And if you do, someday your story may be similar to one of these: •Admiral Peary attempted to reach the North Pole seven times before he made it on try number eight.

El fracaso es la oportunidad de comenzar de nuevo más inteligentemente.

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

As you move forward on the success journey, you need to remember that what happens in you is more important than what happens to you.

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

as the Chinese proverb asserts, "Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still." —

make the most of the difficult situation of working for a bad boss, learn to think like a leader yourself. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

The price of success is failure.

The largest locomotive in the New York Central system, while standing still, can be prevented from moving by a single one-inch block of wood placed in front of each of the eight drive wheels! The same locomotive, moving at 100 miles per hour, can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick. The only difference is momentum. Confidence gives you the momentum that makes the difference. You