Quotes about Resilience

Remember that it is we who torment, we who make difficulties for ourselves — that is, our opinions do. What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective?

Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.

I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.

There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

I started training with school friends and, one by one, they all dropped out. When we became teenagers, it seemed more exciting to go shopping at weekends. My mum told me not to worry about what my friends were doing and to stick at it.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.