Quotes About Resilience

It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

pinned down by a ferocious storm which

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

The setting sun always dwindles with a promise of rising and shining again and again. With every sunset and sunrise, MickeyMize.

To try to win always is foolishness, and to try and win at any cost is foolhardiness. Venture out with openness to lose too. Losing in awareness often gives you learning and wisdom. Grow taller in your loss, bounce back and rise; simply MickeyMize.

Tough times don't last but tough people do.For this life to be complete it has to be total , from white to black& black to white, whatever may be your plight, how much ever you use your might, no shade remains ever constant.Your grit, determination and your resilience however can be constant. Don't collapse when pressurized ,grow taller and get MickeyMized.

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

He repeats what was done to him either directly or symbolically in order to master it and he will keep on repeating it until he gets it right.

Wilken was ostracised by his peers who teased him about his adoptive status. He also had to fight for survival in the reformatory where he was sodomised. He had little chance to socialise and learn empathy for others.

Had my brother not killed himself and had I not known how deeply this affects those who are left behind, I would have taken my life.

My story is a story of very ordinary people during extrgordinarily terrible times. Times of which I hope will never, never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people all over the world to see that they do not.

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.