52 Quotes Tagged: resilience

If a child is lucky, there will always be one Mrs. Egorkin who'll play a pivotal role in his or her life.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you.

You should trust the children; they can stand more than we can.

Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure that tests whether they have the resilience to come back and fight smarter and with more determination.

"They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an easy life. I know that your life is hard; I know that your work is hard; and hardest of all for those of you who have the highest trained consciences, and who therefore feel always how much you ought to do. I know your work is hard, and that is why I congratulate you with all my heart. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

No man will make a great business who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit of doing it. That spirit is fatal, and the sure proof of a small mind.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

What we have lived
Remains indecipherable.
& yet we remain.
& still, we write.
& so, we write.
Watch us move above the fog
Like a promontory at dusk.
Shall this leave us biter?
Or better?

"Student - "It is not that I do not delight in your Way, Master, it is simply that my strength is insufficient."

Confucius - "Someone whose strength is genuinely insufficient collapses somewhere along the Way. As for you, you deliberately draw the line.

Since our problems have been our own creation
They also can be overcome
When we use the power provided free to everyone
This is love

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.