72 Quotes About Resiliency

When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.

Resiliency is more important than being right. You will be wrong. You will fail. How you handle that situation will matter far more than the failure itself.

Well? What do you have to say to me? You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.

During disasters, you hear a lot of praise for human resilience. And we are a remarkably resilient species. But that's not always good. It seems a great many of us can get used to almost anything, even the steady annihilation of our own habitat.

Wheat—like men and women—benefits from being crushed. Crushing makes it fit to stand up all the better.

It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself.

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.