Even ruins are teachers, if we listen to what fell.

“...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This…

— Orson Scott Card

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a community college professor for over twenty years, I've seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show…

— Jill Biden

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

— Henry Adams

“I really do believe stories about the struggles of life do help foster resilient and happy children. They make Tips children understand the whole…

— Iben Dissing Sandahl

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

— Susan Ertz

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

— LaChanze

“Mistakes are lessons and lessons are gifts. Examine them.”

— Jen Knox

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

— Gregory Boyle

“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make…

— Deborah Ford

“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…

— Maya Angelou

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

— Maria Konnikova

“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

— Dustin Poirier

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

— Angela Duckworth