Resiliency Quotes

• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing in this 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 will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

  Albert Bandura

  Fear, Struggle, Self

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• Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Change, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• 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

  Struggle, Track, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 02, 2013

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  Bernard Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Spiritual, Children, Hate

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Success, Adversity, Two

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.8, Pearson Education

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

  Ben Bernanke

  Change, Technology, Years

  "Letting the air out". www.economist.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Kyoto is dead and has been dead, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't done some real damage and won't continue to do some real damage," "If global warming turns out to be a problem, which I doubt, it won't be solved by making ourselves poorer through energy rationing." "It will be solved through building resiliency and capability into society and through long-term technological innovation and transformation.

  Myron Ebell

  Real, Mean, Kyoto

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• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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