Challenges & Adversity: Resilience Quotes

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"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards? Then let wisdom make you a good gamester"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"To survive is to win"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Those who can bear all can dare all"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"I'm still me even after all that's happened"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

Victoria Beckham

"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed"

Bob Riley, Politician

"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"Roman's wife, Sharon Tate, had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw Ghetto that he was very strong and private"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"A man endures misfortune without complaint"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again"

Michael Bay, Director

"I am enduring. You can disagree with me"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt"

Tina Yothers, Actress

Tina Yothers

"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

Lynn Johnston

"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity"

Rosalind Russell, Actress

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

Anna Freud

"You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger"

Drew Brees, Athlete

Drew Brees

"I have woven a parachute out of everything broken"

William Stafford, Poet

"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role"

Lee Majors, Actor

"Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha"

Allison Janney, Actress

"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart"

Pietro Aretino, Poet

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it's acting in spite of it"

Ilhan Omar, Congressman

Ilhan Omar

"The cavalry isn't coming. You have to save yourself"

Jay Duplass, Actor

"A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted"

Andrew Bernstein, Philosopher

"'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens"

Phil Collins, Musician

"Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be"

Barbara Smith, Activist

Barbara Smith

"Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this"

Thomas Holcroft, Dramatist

"You have to have a short memory as a closer"

Frank Robinson, Athlete

"I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the Gulf Coast for our energy resources"

Steve Buyer, Politician

Steve Buyer

"The trick in life is learning how to deal with it"

Helen Mirren, Actress

Helen Mirren

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

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