Quotes about Resilience
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
- Max De Pree
I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.
- Maya Angelou
You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.
- Maya Angelou
... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.
- Charles Dickens
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
- Charles Dickens
She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
- Charles Dickens
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
- Napoleon Hill
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
- Samuel Beckett
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey