Quotes About Resilience

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.