Challenges & Adversity: Resilience Quotes

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"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

Robert H. Schuller

"I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have"

Evita Peron, Statesman

Evita Peron

"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

Dick Cheney

"Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles, but those that were fought and won behind your forehead"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"There is nothing the body suffers; the soul may not profit by"

George Meredith, Novelist

George Meredith

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

Michael J. Fox

"He knows not his own strength, that hath not met adversity"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten, the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy"

John Calvin, Theologian

John Calvin

"The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy"

George Foreman, Athlete

George Foreman

"I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar"

Beverly Sills, Musician

Beverly Sills

"I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Those who escape hell, however, never talk about it, and nothing much bothers them after that"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"I am a series of small victories and large defeats, and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Look back, and smile on perils past"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress"

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe"

Germaine Greer, Activist

Germaine Greer

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

Ellen Glasgow

"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage"

Tadao Ando, Architect

Tadao Ando

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them"

Washington Irving, Writer

Washington Irving

"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

Dean Acheson

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm"

George Canning, Statesman

George Canning

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