Quotes About Resilience

We grieve for our past traumas and present fears, for all of the feelings we never dared experience consciously.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

What you don't have to think about can't really get to you.

War is the greatest of teachers, and not all of its lessons are bad. Their cost is just so terribly high.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

It's axiomatic among professional novelists that when things are going hideously for the lead character, the book is probably going along just wonderfully, thank you.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

It's common to maintain that trying a repetitive tactic in the face of ongoing failure defines insanity, but sometimes it is all we have.

And I myself woke up one day and realized all the people in my old life hated me… but somehow I didn't care. We each became immune to the Blue Plague, which labels all resistance as racist, bigoted, Nazi scumbags.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation

The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

After a fellow has been through several kinds of hell and high water, it isn't exactly new to him if he is told that he may die. though it does give me a pain to think that just as I had given up the ship you fellow should arrive, only to have me die on your hands now that the fight is over. But that's all in the game.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

I spied my shadow slinking up behind me in the night, I issued it a challenge, and we started in to fight. I wrestled with that shadow, but it wasn't any fun, I tried my very hardest— all the same, my shadow won.

There's a leaf clinging fast to a branch, though withered, it somehow holds on, and a single bird singing its song, though all of its kindred have gone. And as long as that little leaf stays, and as long as that stubborn bird sings, then autumn remains in the world, and winter must wait in the wings.

Remember, courage isn't the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in spite of the feeling of fear.

They accept that failure is an integral component of moving forward and, instead, create an environment where "unsafe" thinking and failure are encouraged, recognized, and rewarded.