852 Quotes About Resilience

In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better. Those words are my North Star.

We must give our children fear. It is a rich and immensely valuable experience to know fear. Fear in context, fear that exists in complex relationships with other forces, fear that has limits and can be contained within safe places: this is the only way people at the beginning of their life journeys can develop an arsenal powerful enough to ensure that those journeys are healthy, satisfying and successful.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

UNDAUNTED PURSUITSuccess, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience

Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one neatly complementing the other. A child’s contradictory impulses to both acknowledge and deny a parent’s death represents precisely the type of rich ambiguity that inspires artistic expression.

As long as you live, as long as that final fate that everyone will meet, never accept defeat as final

Is there a greater gift you can give to your children and your children’s children than to grow up to be happier, more secure and resilient adults?

Lagos is a type of colosseum. To survive, you need to be a gladiator; to succeed, you need to be Spartacus, and the odds are never in your favour.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.