Quotes about Resilience

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees. Their earliest memories are of living in a home with their family. It's in my blood, I guess, to have a fear about encouraging fascism.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.