Challenges & Adversity: Resilience Quotes

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"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

Elie Wiesel

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

Elie Wiesel

"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated"

Brad Henry, Politician

Brad Henry

"Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger"

Brad Henry, Politician

Brad Henry

"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"We are a small nation, but strong"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

Moshe Dayan

"I have the strength to endure it all"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

Moshe Dayan

"The spirit of man can endure only so much, and when it is broken, only a miracle can mend it"

John Burroughs, Author

"Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled?"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"He who cannot bear misfortune with poise and dignity will never be happy"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win"

William Howard Taft, President

"Well, first of all, it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs, all the failures, that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion"

Robert Redford, Actor

Robert Redford

"If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

Shelley Duvall

"I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

Horatio Nelson

"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"I've always believed in survival"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

Hugh Leonard

"So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya"

Christian Bale, Actor

Christian Bale

"The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

Miguel de Unamuno

"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die"

Judy Garland, Actress

Judy Garland

"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune"

Hesiod, Poet

Hesiod

"Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be, who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise"

Cleopatra, Royalty

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be"

John Heywood, Dramatist

John Heywood

"It's easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song; but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

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