Quotes about Resilience

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.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don't regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn't recognize it directly. I don't think that impairs the future of Wells Fargo. They'll be better for it.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.