resilience quotes

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

People want you to fail.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

I came up from a difficult background.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.