Quotes about Resilience

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

It's always too soon to quit!

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities. You can turn them into your strongest points.

Think defeat and you are bound to feel defeated. But practice thinking confident thoughts, make it a dominating habit, and you will develop such a strong sense of capacity that regardless of what difficulties arise, you will be able to overcome them.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

It is not hard work that drains off energy but emotional upheaval

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you.

complete state of retreating

What, then, shall we say in response to these things?" What things? Why, anything! Disappointment, frustration, nervousness, despair, anxiety, injustice: "What shall we then say to these things?" Well, the answer is . . . "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Isn't that wonderful? That is resonant, that is sturdy, that is the essence of victory.