Quotes about Resilience
Crisis doesn't necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it. Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
— John Maxwell
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
— John Maxwell
You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end and you must also confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.
— John Maxwell
The problem promise: when you handle them well, problems promise to make you better.
— John Maxwell
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
— John Maxwell
Downsides rarely have an upside unless you are ready for them on the front end.
— John Maxwell
Realize that the guys who criticize will minimize the guys whose enterprise rises above the guys who criticize and minimize.
— John Maxwell
Most people produce only when they feel like it. Leaders produce even when they don't feel like it.
— John Maxwell
Perhaps the most important problem-solving skill that I have learned and practiced over the years is mental agility.
— John Maxwell
Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
— John Maxwell
You know that your attitude capacity has increased when your attitude is remaining positive even as your difficulties rise.
— John Maxwell
When I'm swimming with the tide, my progress has little to do with the speed and strength of my strokes. It is determined by how fast the tide is moving. Swim with it and you make fast progress. Swim against it and you move very slowly, no matter how hard you work at it.
— John Maxwell