resilience quotes

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Americans never quit.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

The only way round is through.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.