Quotes about Resilience

When we can accept both our humanity and the perpetrator's we can write a new story. One in which we are no longer cast as a victim, but a survivor, even perhaps a hero.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.

Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our own stories of harm predict our future health and happiness in recovering from that trauma. When we know our stories and make sense of what has happened, we get connected to the larger story of our lives and its meaning. We become more resilient, we are able to handle stress, and we heal.

I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.

Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.

Even in the face of the greatest adversity, the key is to never lose hope, never lose sense of the dream that drives you.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

But I'm going to play with the same passion and desire every night, and nobody's going to change that. Not referees. Nobody.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.

The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance … Christian steadfastness, the brave and courageous acceptance of everything life can do to us, and the transmuting of even the worst into another step on the upward way. It is the courageous and triumphant ability to bear things, which enables a man to pass breaking point and not to break, and always to greet the unseen with a cheer.7

Often we think of patience in passive terms, as if the patient person is utterly submissive and half asleep.

Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.