resilience quotes

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I can handle pain.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.