Once we believe in ourselves,
we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight, or any experience
that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings
It takes courage to grow up
and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings
Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear,
not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds.
Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.
Toller Cranston
There is always one moment in childhood
when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak Chopra
When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Tarthang Tulku
It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.
Bob Richards
It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
Casey Robinson
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Thomas Edison
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards,
but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Play like you're in first, but train like you're in second.
Unknown
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
Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.
Jon Bon Jovi
Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
The difference between a good athlete and a top athlete is the top athlete will do the mundane things when nobody's looking.
Susan True
When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then Willpower will be no problem.
Emil Zatopek, Czech Olympic great.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog! The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell.
African Tribal Saying
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Sir Thomas Brown
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.
Unknown
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
...we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
Problems are not stop signs, they're guidelines.
Robert Schuler.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
He who has a why to live for, can endure almost any how.
Dr. Victor Frankyl, Psychiatrist
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life only demands from the strength that you possess.
Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of all human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sir Winston Churchill
Resilient children tend to have parents who are concerned with their children's education, who participate in that education, who direct their children everyday task, and who are aware of their children interests and goals. Another important characteristic of resilient children is having at least one significant adult in their lives.
Linda F. Winfield
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh
A. A. Milne quotes
It is not the strongest
of the species that survive,
nore the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
Darwin
Behold the turtle: he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conat, 1893-1978, Educator and Diplomat
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Napoleon Hill
If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
Walter Bonatti.
Cry if you want to, I won't tell you not to,
I won't try to cheer you, I 'll just be here if you want me to be.
C. Porter
Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.
Goethe
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Sir Winston Churchill
Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks.
It's just a matter of how you view them.
Unknown
Never, never, never, never give up.
Sir Winston Churchill
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Unknown
Let the past drift away with the water.
Japanese Saying
Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes off of the goal.
Crossman
History had demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B.C. Forbes
The marvellous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision be cleared, ambition insured and success achieved.
Helen Keller
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Japanese proverb
The sturdiest tree is not found in the shelter of the forest but high upon some rocky crag, where its daily battle with the elements shapes it into a thing of beauty.
Unknown
There's no thrill in easy sailing,
When the sky is clear and blue.
There's no joy in merely doing
Things which anyone can do.
But there is some fulfillment
That is mighty sweet to take,
When you reach a destination,
You thought you couldn't make.
Unknown
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
Unknown
Little drops of water wear down big stones.
Russian Proverb
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Coach Bear Bryant
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education is not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Seize the day, Carpe Diem.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65BC-8BC
In the midst of winter,
I finally learned
there was in me
an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Healing is a matter of time, but sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hypocrites 460 - 400 B.C.
If we are to lift ourselves out of this morass we must shift our sights from the superficial to the sacrificial.
Jesse Jackson
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
James F Bell
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage follows action.
Mack R. Douglas
Resilient children have at least one significant adult in their lives.
Linda F. Winfield
Let us rid ourselves
of all things that hinder us
and run with courage and endurance
the race that is set before us.
Hebrews 12:1
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they get render a different results. Tears will get you sympathy, but sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. Franz Kafka
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born
until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world
is born.
Anais Nin
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of
respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one
family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
If God brings you to it,
He will bring you through it.
Author: Unknown
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F.Kennedy
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Picturize, prayerize, actualize.
Norman Vincent Peale
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcom Stevenson Forbes
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not... nothing is more common than unsuccessful people will talent.
Genius will not... unrewarded genius is almost legendary.
Education will not.... the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
President Calvin Coolidge
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all you were intended to be.
Charlie - Tremendous- Jones
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
Brian Owe
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
I was told over and over again that I would never be successful,
that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was
simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say
"We'll just have to see".
Dick Fosbury
(He won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games
after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.)
God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.
Mary Kay Ash
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
Anthony Robbins
What you repress will make you regress.
Michael H. Ballard
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
Oprah Winfrey
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura
What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napolean Hill
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Albert Bandura
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there!
Will Rogers
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has Genius, Power and Magic in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.
Matthew Keith Groves
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Prescott
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
Albert Bandura
"It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.""
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James Arthur Baldwin
"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
Bern Williams
"A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology."
Henry Louis Mencken
The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
Jim Sensenbrenner
People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.
David Brudnoy
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Albert Bandura
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
-Japanese Proverb
"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-Abraham Lincoln
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."
Will Durant
When your face is in the dirt, dust off and order dessert.
Laura Teresa Marquez
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.
- Helen Hayes
I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front the essential facts of life and learn what they had to teach; and not, when it came time to die, discover that I had not lived.
- H.D. Thoreau
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to
sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to
their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.
- Rabindranth Tagore
On the path to heaven, there will be occasional rocks in your shoes -- yet, the views are magnificent, the pain is bearable, and turning back is not an option."
Laura Teresa Marquez
"To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction."
- Thomas A. Edison
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