resilience quotes

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Losing is tough.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.