Quotes About Resilience

A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

He got one finger cut off when he was young... The cafe paid for a replacement, put some nano-plastic in there. The kid got hooked. It happens. You get some plastic in you, you just want some more...Some more of that strength. Because that's what it is. Strength. The Strength to persist.

realize you aren't the first and only person to ever face insurmountable odds.

Consider failure as just a comma in the middle of a sentence that tells the story of your life.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

In the process of learning to walk, did you spend more time falling down or standing up? If you were anything like most babies, you failed (fell) far more than you succeeded (walked). It didn't matter: you were on the path of mastery.

No matter what you have done in your life up until today, no matter where you are and how far down you may have slid on the failure curve, you can start fresh, building a positive pattern of success, at any time. Including right now. But you need to have faith in the process, because you won't see it happening at first.

Successful people fail their way to the top.

No, this time I needed to sit down and start carefully, methodically, systematically sorting through the mixed up pieces of my shattered life.

You must hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone else says to you, don't let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change." —Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird by

You are capable of great things. Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing-even when you don't feel like it, even when no one else is watching.

If you will commit to showing up consistently, every day, no matter what, then you have already won well more than half the battle.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

I have not failed. I've simply discovered ten thousand ways that don't work.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.

Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois, failure was not only an option, it was practically his specialty. If it hadn't been, he would never have made it to the White House, and who knows what the United States would look like today. Or if there would even be such a thing as the United States. And

All you have to do is keep doing the things that got you this far. Which is exactly what 99.9 percent of people don't do.

What do most people do? When there's a tree in the way they grab that axe, dull or not, and start whaling away at it. And if they

Impossible just takes a little longer.

be prepared for surprises and bad news. In fact, celebrate the bad news, because you could have received the same bad news months later, after you'd built the software.

Not even generals can stop the rain.

Movements are born from the problems of everyday lives, but they are not limited by them.

And being stubborn. "Why don't you just let me get up there?" I said, trying to