Quotes about Resilience

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

We can all endure disaster and tragedy and triumph over them—if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?