Quotes About Resilience

There shall be no Alps.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.î

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

History paints the human heart.

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits.

They weren't happy memories because your father and I were never happy together. Even if we had been briefly and occasionally happy, everything got sullied, ripped up, and destroyed. But people don't love each other only for happy memories. At a certain point in life, you realize that you just love the memories.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

it's better to be sullen and strong than sullen and weak.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

LIFE IS NOT ORDERLY. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Don't worry, no one ever died of it. You might cry or laugh, but not die.

That dead feeling hits hard and permeates the first year. It comes back to test you often in the following years, but if you get through the first year, then you know about it. It will never have the power to defeat you again.