Quotes About Resilience

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

None of These Will Come Easy.

You learn to build your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.