Resilience Quotes · Page 28

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

— Maya Angelou

“Grit embodies—but is not the same as—resilience, ambition, and self-control. The University of Pennsylvania psychologist and researcher Angela Duckworth defines it as…

— Susan David

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk,…

— Peter McWilliams

Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay…

— Sarah Lewis

I would say that the one incredible thing that Karachi has going for it is the unabated supply of new migrants that…

— Steve Inskeep

“Whever we experience a pain or a loss... we usually bounce back. Sometimes even stronger. That's called "resiliency." Why can we do…

— José N. Harris

Once-in-a-generation weather events are now becoming a regular occurrence. Whether it be public safety power shutoffs or electric system failures due to…

— Alex Padilla

The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them,…

— William Shakespeare

“Inner Resilience Program (IRP) to help New York City teachers in Ground Zero cope with the resulting trauma (Lantieri, Nambiar, & Chavez-Reilly,…

— Patricia A. Jennings

“ The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the…

— Robert W. Service

“And if we all have shame, the good news is that we’re all capable of developing shame resilience. Shame resilience is the…

— Brené Brown

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is…

— Joshua Waitzkin

What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up'…

— John Cena

“She wasn’t falling apart. She was falling into herself.” This line captures the heart of my trilogy: the moment a woman realizes…

— Rowan Christoff

“Empowerment is our journey from adversity to strength. To all survivors out there: Your resilience is your superpower, and your story is…

— Carlos Wallace

“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Lessons: Diversity = resilience. Abundance = resilience. to survive catastrophe, you need a surplus, a reservoir, money under the mattress, food in…

— Carl Safina

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Persistence compounds. One more try, one more day, one more effort—that could be your breakthrough. When you feel like giving in -…

— Olawale Daniel

I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know…

— Valerie Jarrett

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a…

— Leon Botstein

“Without exception, spirituality—the belief in connection, a power greater than self, and interconnections grounded in love and compassion—emerged as a component of…

— Brené Brown

“A breakdown is not the end. Even the strongest of people have a breaking point, We all break at some point in…

— Drishti Bablani

The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm inspired by strong, courageous women. My mother is the definition of a self-sufficient, independent woman whom I have always looked up…

— Nazanin Boniadi

“We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“And compassion really begins, the real seed of it is not thinking that you have some sort of special problem that isolates…

— Barry Boyce

“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is…

— Herman Melville

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience…

— Sylvia Earle

“Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure (which Campbell calls an “abyss” or the “belly of the whale” experience) that…

— Ray Dalio

“In the overwhelming demands of daily life, you get bombarded with continuous distractions, expectations and responsibilities. Is it no wonder that you…

— Susan C. Young

“Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice.…

— Robert Hayden

In my own life, there were many things that didn't happen for me in the outside world, but that gave me an…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

“When a storm of harassment disturbs our thinking and brings us down to our knees, the umbrella of our imagination can shield…

— Erik Pevernagie

Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood…

— Pauline Kael