Quotes About Resilience

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Don't cry out loud, keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings. Fly high and proud, and if you should fall, remember you almost had it all.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.