Quotes and Sayings About Resilience
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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
-- Abdul Kalam -
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
-- Alain de Botton -
Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
-- Alan Greenspan -
He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
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Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.
-- Ann Petry -
The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.
-- Anne KatherineSource : Anne Katherine (2012). “Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
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Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
-- Brad Henry -
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
-- Bram StokerSource : Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.315, "F+W Media, Inc."
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Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.
-- Brené Brown -
Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.
-- Chip ConleySource : Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.125, Simon and Schuster
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Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.
-- Daphne Oz -
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Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society
-- Dave Hampton -
I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.
-- David HalberstamSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
-- David Mitchell -
Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
That which does not destroy, strengthens.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f
-- Gary Hamel -
Why building self esteem?. The benefits of having self esteem are numerous. Self esteem is strongly associated with happiness, psychological resilience, and a motivating to live a productive and healthy life.
-- Glenn R. SchiraldiSource : Glenn R. Schiraldi (2007). “10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image”, p.9, New Harbinger Publications
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Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.
-- Henry PaulsonSource : "Five Years Later, Lehman Brothers Fall Still Stings". "All Things Considered" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.
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...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
-- Ishmael BeahSource : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.4, Macmillan
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No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.
-- Jack Ma -
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
-- Jamais Cascio -
If everything was super easy and I didn't have to face the odd bump in the road or difficult time then I guess my 'resilience muscles' wouldn't be in such good shape.
-- Jan Hellriegel -
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.
-- Janette Turner Hospital -
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Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
-- Janine Benyus -
Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
-- Jeffrey GitomerSource : Twitter post from Feb 04, 2016