Quotes About Resilience

A woman has within herself the ability to spontaneously rise up after she has hit bottom. A man does not have to fix her. She is not broken but just needs his love, patience, and understanding.

What you feel, you can heal.

The main difference between those who succeed in life and those who fail is the knowledge of how to get back up.

Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.

Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.

How do you survive for years in prison? You don't think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice.

Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!

When you have no future, you live in the past.

A lawyer had to be himself in the courtroom, and if he was afraid, so be it. The jurors were afraid too. Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.

Today was the worst day of his professional life, but tomorrow would be better.

After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, You throw at me, I'll make you pay.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Those pricks down at the Rotary Club and the church and the coffee shop will not make you a lawyer and will not make you a dime." And, "To be a real lawyer, first you grow a thick skin, and second you tell everybody but your clients to go to hell." And, "A real lawyer is not afraid of unpopular cases.

The human body was not meant for such abuse. After about six months they lost steam.

Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch in 1920. Mickey Cochrane never played again after taking one in the head. Tony Conigliaro was a certain Hall of Famer, then he got beaned in the eye. I

Plans—nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.

Rejection comes easy, because you learn quickly that the worst thing that can happen is to hear the word no

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.

Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.

Once a heavy smoker—a good portion of the smoke-stained windows and ceilings could be blamed on her—she had been battling lung cancer for the past three years but had yet to miss a full week of work.

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

Don't cry for me. And don't cry for the memories. Never look back, there's too much left to do.

And the voice will tell you to pick yourself up, to set a goal, to work harder than anybody else, stick to the basics, execute perfectly, be confident, be brave, and never, never quit. The voice is never far away.

Amonth after the death of her husband, Jackie Bell moved with her three children to her parents' home in Rome, Georgia.