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Quotes About Resilience

Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.
~ John Updike
When he strays from straddling the mane of weeds, brambles rake his painted sides.
~ John Updike
What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?
~ John Updike
Our inner self learns from the things that our outer self suffers, and though it appears devastating to the outer self, the inner self lives on forever with the wisdom gained.
~ Unknown
Grief is about a broken heart, not a broken brain. All efforts to heal the heart with the head fail because the head is the wrong tool for the job. It's like trying to paint with a hammer—it only makes a mess.
~ Unknown
no one can make you feel bad about yourself without your permission.
~ Unknown
La vida es aquello que te ocurre mientras tú te empeñas en hacer otros planes.
~ Unknown
I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.
~ John Wagner
But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.
~ John Waters
And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn't commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let's remember the ones who did. It's time to get busy. It's your turn to cause trouble.
~ John Waters
When the worst thing that can happen to you does, I try to be a friend.
~ John Waters
Cheer up. You never know — maybe something awful will happen tomorrow.
~ John Waters
A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.
~ John Williams
The biggest risk is that a lot of people will try to talk you out of pursuing your dream. The world has too many people who are happy to discuss why something might not work, and too few who will cheer you and say, I'm there for you. The more time you spend navel-gazing, the longer you give those negative gravitational forces to keep you in their tether.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.
~ Unknown
Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.
~ John Wooden
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
~ John Wooden
Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.
~ John Wooden
Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.
~ John Wooden
To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.
~ John Wooden
It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.
~ John Wooden
Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~ John Wooden
Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.
~ John Wooden
Sposobnost može da te dovede na vrh al da bi opstao na vrhu, potreban ti je karakter.
~ John Wooden