Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"That which does not destroy, strengthens."
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Resilience
101 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up."
Dominique Browning
Writer
"The key to life is resilience....We will always be knocked down. It’s the getting up that counts."
Andrew Weil
Author
"Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed."
Jack Ma
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
"No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start."
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"Human beings have enormous resilience."
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"Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success."
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"Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen."
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"Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better."
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"True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition."
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"The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships."
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"We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience."
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"After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world."
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"It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested."
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"But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving"
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"The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness."
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"Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible."
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"She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience."
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"I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world."
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"I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation."
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