resilience quotes

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Good luck has its storms.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.