Quotes About Resilience

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

The reward of suffering is experience

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Peace isn't an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it's an experience that's expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.