Quotes About Resiliency

#1. Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

Amy Koppelman

#2. His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

Dean Koontz

#3. I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.

Sergio Aguero

#4. Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific ...

Asa Don Brown

#5. Resiliency is the key to love.

Ronald Rolheiser

#6. I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.

Mike Fisher

#7. Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

Jill Conner Browne

#9. A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.

Daniel James Brown

#10. The culture and heritage should stay intact and be maintained as it provides the individuals with some degree of resiliency. The effects of the trauma is what should be focused on and treated. Improving the quality of life for survivors is the focus of treatment. It is not to erase the past.

Thomas Hodge

#11. The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.

Jim Rohn

#12. Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

Wendy Davis

#13. One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

Jeannette Walls

#14. I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

Janet Evanovich

#15. Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.

Jerry I. Porras

#16. As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

Paul Tonko

#17. Do not forget that children are like rainbows; they come in an array of personalities, levels of resiliency, and a variety of temperaments.

Asa Don Brown

#18. I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

Julia Cameron

#19. In the face of all this, it is your culture that will be the driving force to create the resiliency, toughness, passion, and attitude to overcome the obstacles in your way.

Jon Gordon

#20. Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Bryant McGill

#21. Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

Richard M. Weaver

#22. America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.

Kenneth Langone

#23. I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

Carl Paladino

#24. Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

Tami Stronach

#25. Our bodies are our vehicles of life. They are ours to take care of. If we aren't taking care of them, they show signs of stress and wear. If we are taking care of our bodies, they show signs of healing and resiliency. A healthy body is an inspired body, and an inspired body is a happy body.

Elaina Marie

#26. All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.

Roger Staubach

#27. The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you're prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#28. Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

Diane Ackerman

#29. You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Hale Irwin

#30. The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

Karen Russell

#31. There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.

Edward T. Welch

#32. My policy has always been to burn my bridges behind me. My face is always set toward the future. If I make a mistake it is fatal. When I am flung back I fall all the way back - to the very bottom. My one safeguard is my resiliency. So far I have always bounced back.

Henry Miller

#33. In my view, it is important that our national government exercise leadership to improve the resiliency of the entire nation in the face of continuing extreme weather.

Matt Cartwright

#34. Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework ...

Asa Don Brown

#35. The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

Jane Fonda

#36. Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

Asa Don Brown

#37. Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

Asa Don Brown

#38. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

#39. ... there is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.

Barbara Lieberman

#40. I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.

Marilynn Halas

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

Jaeda DeWalt

#42. Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

Asa Don Brown

#43. Life is a lesson that must never be taken for granted.

Debra Roinestad

#44. Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Asa Don Brown

#45. One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

Hope Solo

#46. Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice James

#47. There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.

William Manchester

#48. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes ...

Andrew Solomon

#49. While everyone was screaming in italics, the babies themselves seem to have done just fine. Despite their inability to do almost anything on their own, infants are far more flexible than they get credit for: within a few obvious parameters - food, shelter, love - they are astonishingly adaptive.

Nicholas Day

#50. I was many things, but I wasn't a quitter. I didn't give up, and I wasn't going to start.

Gwenda Bond

#51. She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Robert K. Massie

#52. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

Laurie Perez

#53. It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself.

Anthony Breznican

#54. Dig deep to finish what you start. Because no matter how hard it feels to push through adversity at the time, once your done, you'll own the experience for the rest of your life.

Aaron Lauritsen

#55. Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Asa Don Brown

#56. There's no matter here you can't re-matter into love.

Laurie Perez

#57. Trauma can have a masking effect.

Asa Don Brown