Quotes About Resilience

More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

Success is moving from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Failure offered me a better destiny.

No failure, disappointment, or crisis is too great for God to redeem. Only we can limit ourselves by failing to dream and risk again.

The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.

Take wrongs patiently. Be willing to suffer for doing good (1 Pet. 3:8–17).

Friendships make all the difference in surviving the inevitable crises of leadership.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Don't fight it out to the bitter end, or the end will most certainly be bitter.

During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in four countries. I moved in and out of 17 different houses and flats in Beijing, Seoul, Colorado, Boston, Leeds, Washington D.C., London and Shenzhen.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

I do not take orders from Washington, and I suggest that no one else should either.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

Never waste a crisis.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.