Quotes about Resilience

If you want to be successful in a particular field, perseverance is one of the key qualities.

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that. To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.

Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.

My parents first rented a tiny apartment on Chapel Street with their black standard poodle, Turbo. When I arrived, they had to move out because the landlord allowed dogs but not babies. They found a place on Edwards Street, where the owner allowed babies but not dogs. Fortunately, I made the cut and Turbo went to live at Grove Lane.

George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.