Quotes About Resilience

It's funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet.

Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

I continue to love you with a strength I didn't know was possible. I love you because you are part of me. I love you because loving you is like loving myself. I know that, despite all that has happened, you are a good man. And I won't... I can't give you up.

Looking back, I don't think there was ever a point where I officially gave up on my dreams; instead I think it happened gradually, as these things do, so that I barely noticed the shift in my thinking.

None of us knew how to come back from this moment. This was where the script ended and we all had to improvise.

Joyce, you know you can't pick a fight with everyone who has something to say about us, don't you?' 'I know,' she whispered into the darkness. 'There's too many of them, and not enough hours in the day.' 'It's funny,' said Hubert. 'Until me came to this country me went my whole life thinking me was just plain old Hubert Bird and then me come and find that actually me the devil himself.

You see, the key to helping other people out of them loneliness is nothing more difficult than good old-fashioned perseverance. It's not always easy, me know that, but you've got to be willing to keep doors open, to carry on trying even if it doesn't look like it's working. You've got to refuse to give up on people, even if them giving up on themselves.

Mike Greenberg

The most important aspect of being in an innovative environment is not being afraid to fail.

Avant d'attaquer chaque nouvelle journée de marche, j'applique une vieille recette esquimaude qui consiste à me moucher dans mes doigts et à étaler le résultat sur mon visage. Qu'on se rassure : il ne s'agit que d'un liquide transparent, qui gèle et forme un masque antigelures plus efficace que toutes les crèmes – ce qui m'évite d'en transporter une, puisque j'ai le nez qui coule en permanence.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker

Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied

Continual frustration of a child's striving for belonging can lead to resentment, hopelessness, or even vengeful behavior. The child who feels "different" most often feels inferior and isolated as well.

The companies that didn't suffer, including Netflix, knew how to design for reliability; they understood resilience, spreading data across zones, and a whole lot of reliability engineering.

don't give up till the buzzer sounds -coach joey

I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before?

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

You can handle anything anybody throws at you

You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

Happy people have just as much pain as anyone else, in some cases more. It could even be argued that the happy feel pain more acutely than the unhappy, whose feelings are relatively numb. The real difference in happy people is that they're not trapped by their pain. Rather than settling inside a happy soul, pain moves through it as through a channel, and that channel is joy. Joy keeps pain moving.