Quotes About Resilience

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

Developing mental toughness isn't just about being resilient – it's about accessing your reserve tank when you think you just can't go any further.

There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over.

La estrategia de "no hacer olas" tal vez era viable como modelo empresarial hace veinte años, pero hoy en día, dada la velocidad frenética del mundo de los negocios, es un despropósito. En la actualidad, quedarse quieto es ir hacia atrás, ¡y a gran velocidad!

Lo que importa no es necesariamente el tamaño del perro en la pelea, sino el tamaño de la pelea que lleva dentro el perro".

As you pursue your career, your efforts may sometimes meet with failure. Don't be discouraged -- one of the best ways to learn how to do anything is to make mistakes. It took time and a lot of errors before I achieved any successes.

I became the lease holder of the Roof Gardens after a bouncer refused me entry for wearing jeans and looking too scruffy. I bought the place the next day, and gently informed the bouncer to let me in regardless of my clothing. He turned out to be a delightful gentleman and ended up working for us for another three decades.

Whatever you do, do not back down.

Tantrums should become less frequent as you proceed through unspoiling. However, they might become more intense for a short while.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. To do so is emotional suicide. If you have a legitimate problem, it will still be there when your state of mind improves. The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously. The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, "This too shall pass." It will.

I'm merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." ? Corrie ten Boom

Let go of those painful and traumatic experiences and hold on to those precious moments in your life.

Leaders are not born. Leaders are built.