Quotes about Resilience

Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

You know that your attitude capacity has increased when your attitude is remaining positive even as your difficulties rise.

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.

1. Cop-outs. People who have no goals and do not commit. 2. Holdouts. People who don't know if they can reach their goals, so they're afraid to commit. 3. Dropouts. People who start toward a goal but quit when the going gets tough. 4. All-outs. People who set goals, commit to them, and pay the price to reach.

it's not over until you've learned from it.

First speech? Frightened beyond belief. First board meeting? Scared stiff. I was never good the first time, and I was always scared on top of that.

I will never surrender to discouragement or despair no matter what seeming obstacles may confront me.

Limit the effect of any emotional high or low to the twenty-four-hour period that follows the occurrence.

Don't avoid paying the immediate price of change—if you do, you will pay the ultimate price of never improving.

Learn to view your problems as temporary stumbling blocks.

Life involves struggle.

You have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.