Resilience: The ability to quickly overcome challenges
Resilience is one of my favorite topics.Being able to endure and bounce back from stressful times is one of the most important skills you can develop in your lifetime! Enjoy these quotes from resilient warriors!
Resilience Quotes
“Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.” -Jeffrey Gitomer (Motivational Speaker)
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
-Buddha (Founder of Buddhism)
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
-Bernard Williams (19th Century Philosopher)
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
-Napoleon Hill (Author)
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet)
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most resilient and responsive to change.”
-Charles Darwin (Evolutionary Theorist)
“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, and you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”
-Yasmin Mogahed (Spiritual Healer)
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
-Confucius (Philosopher)
“If resilience is to be strengthened, if stress is to be limited, and if the quality of our personal and professional well-being is to be enhanced, then self-knowledge and enlightened behavior are not niceties; they are first steps we all must take in life.”
-Robert J. Wicks (Psychologist)
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
-George S. Patton (Army General)
“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
-Napoleon Hill (Author)
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
–Henry Ford (Founder of Ford Motor Company)
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
-A. A. Milne (Author of Winnie-the-Pooh)
“Life will not always deliver your desired outcomes. It has to teach you that your spirit will get its muscle by bouncing back and giving it all you can.”
-Dodinsky (Author)
“All of us get knocked down, but it’s resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes individuals is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.”
-Roger Staubach (Athlete)
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