Quotes about Resilience
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.
— Stephen Covey
Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.
— Stephen Covey
No one can hurt me without my consent.
— Stephen Covey
When we are dependent on the person with whom we are in conflict, both need and conflict are compounded. Love-hate over-reactions, fight-or-flight tendencies, withdrawal, aggressiveness, bitterness, resentment, and cold competition are some of the usual results. When these occur, we tend to fall even further back on background tendencies and habits in an effort to justify and defend our own behavior and we attack our spouse's. Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need
— Stephen Covey
No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
— Stephen Covey
Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Stephen Covey
The greatest battles we fight are in the silent chambers of our own souls.
— Stephen Covey
The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
— Stephen Covey
We share in the spirit embodied in the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer, "Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Stephen Covey
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
— Stephen Covey
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
— Stephen Covey
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
— Stephen Covey