resilience Quotes

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the... ...

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes... ...

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.