Quotes about Resilience

Carme told them she couldn't remember what she felt, but she realized it's hard to die, and to invite death is cowardice.

This is a road I must travel bleeding.

We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.

The only way round is through.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.