Quotes About Resilience

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

While there's life, there's hope.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.