Quotes About Being Resilient

#1. Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

Seth Godin

#2. The ability to reframe negative situations is a key element to being resilient.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#3. The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by any person whatever, or destroyed by any other weapon than the hands of melancholy

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#4. Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Tom Peters

#5. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks,

Anthony Doerr

#6. I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#7. Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Steven Johnson

#8. When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.

Jaeda DeWalt

#9. I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer
I'm a dragon irritater.

Craig Ferguson

#10. The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#11. Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying - and you have to keep trying - eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

Jonathan Nolan

#12. I am startled by how resistant people are to doing anything nice or nurturing for themselves, especially women. They fear being selfish. This intense clinging to a martyr role doesn't serve anyone. It makes you brittle, not resilient.

Annette Vaillancourt

#13. I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

Georg Brandes

#14. I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#15. Asking for something is easy ... being responsible for it is the part that develops character.

Joyce Meyer

#16. The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Gertrude Atherton

#17. Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

Richard Davidson

#18. The cheese stands alone
The cheese stands alone
Heigh-ho the merry-o
The cheese stands alone

Robert Cormier

#19. It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.

Rob Payne

#20. Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need

David Cameron

#21. Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#22. We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

Robert Redford

#23. I don't have a problem baring my emotions in music. That's one of the reasons I'm glad to have music in my life. I'm pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

Shelby Lynne

#24. To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Chris Weitz

#25. Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

Richard Dawkins

#26. Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Jamais Cascio

#27. And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.

Lynn Redgrave