Quotes About Resilience

solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is suffering. If you haven't cried, you can't dry another's eyes. Unless you've walked in darkness, you can't help wanderers find the way. Unless you've looked into the eyes of menacing death and felt its hot breath, you can't help another rise from the dead and taste anew the joy of being alive.

Suffering, gracefully accepted, refines the human heart, and the experience of darkness sharpens the vision of the spirit.

Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.

Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage : the pain is a memory as soon as you feel it.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Instead of weakening us, the persecution just made us stronger. The more pressure there was, the more fire and love there was to spread the gospel.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.

Get on your feet or die.

Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Paul Hutchens

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems."–

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications: The more papers you publish, the more rejections you receive.

Writing a book is like injecting anabolic steroids: it if doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger and hairier.

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

This land does not go out of its way to provide happy endings

A plan without room for change is a recipe for frustration.