Quotes about Resilience
Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease;
— James Allen
No man can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue. Worry is not merely useless, it is folly, for it defeats that power and intelligence which is otherwise equal to the task.
— James Allen
Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with; anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task which cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty, and becomes an impossibility; and anxiety is still unnecessary, for there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely, to submit to it. The inevitable is the best.
— James Allen
Those who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered
— James Allen
Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.
— James Allen
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine...
— James Allen
You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free.
— James Allen
Whether you be man or woman, you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
— James Allen
It may be that you are in the employ of a tyrannous master or mistress, and you feel that you are harshly treated. Look upon this also as necessary to your training. Return your employer's unkindness with gentleness and forgiveness.
— James Allen
We begin to be mature adults only when we cease to whine and revile and commence to search for the hidden justice which regulates our lives.
— James Allen
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and worry are the exceptional enemies of understanding, and he who encourages them, who does no longer slay them, thwarts himself at each step.
— James Allen
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognise failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them; and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
— James Allen