Quotes about Resilience
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
— Abraham Lincoln
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
— Anonymous
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.
— Madeleine Albright
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
— Victor Hugo
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
— Francis de Sales
He who complains, sins.
— Francis de Sales
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
— Samuel Johnson
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
— Ruth Gordon