Challenges & Adversity: Resilience Quotes

Lenny Wilkens

"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life, then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life"

Walter Anderson, Writer

"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself"

Walter Anderson, Writer

"Cold exposure is a powerful way to build resilience because you learn to stay calm while your body is screaming to do the opposite"

Andrew Huberman, Scientist

"Embrace the struggle; it makes you stronger"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival"

Iggy Pop, Musician

"The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally"

Paula Abdul, Musician

"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me, the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead"

Andre Norton, Writer

"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"The feeble soul merely whines and complains"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life"

Martin Short, Actor

"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree, it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened"

Philip Sidney, Soldier

"A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger"

Philip Sidney, Soldier

"There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"The great duty of life is not to be free from care, but to learn how to bear it with a brave and cheerful spirit"

William Pennington, Politician

"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again"

Pat Riley, Coach

"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient, and resourceful nation"

Bill Frist, Politician

"That's the goal, to survive your gift"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

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