Resilience Quotes - Page 5

• Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.

  Chip Conley

  People, Curiosity, Mind

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• ...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

  Ishmael Beah

  Children, Suffering, Chance

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.4, Macmillan

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• I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

  David Halberstam

  People, Great Faith

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thanks, Sissy, Notion

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.31, Random House

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• Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

  Janine Benyus

  Use, World, Natural

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• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  Kate Reardon

  School, Teach, Ability

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• Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.

  Wes Fesler

  Running, Running Away, Ability

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• Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,' and I live by that. I am becoming authentic, and that's important to me. I have surpassed both my parents in terms of emotional stability, happiness and well-being. And I'm a lucky woman. I've deserved my luck.

  Jane Fonda

  Believe, Emotional, People

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• I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world.

  Kathy Calvin

  People, World, Inspired

  "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.

  Ralph Marston

  Passion, Creativity, Persistence

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• This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.  Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Loss, People

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• We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Kids, Adventure, Order

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• Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now, as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.

  Henry Paulson

  Past, People, Excess

  "Five Years Later, Lehman Brothers Fall Still Stings". "All Things Considered" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

  Andre Dubus

  Mother, Stars, Vegetables

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• Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Adversity, People, Trying

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• Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

  Robert David Steele

  Integrity, Challenges, Demand

  Robert David Steele (2012). “The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust”, p.86, North Atlantic Books

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• Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Get Better, Resilient, Shock

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.3, Random House

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• Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Adversity

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?

  Thomas Wolfe

  Healing, Order, Self

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.48, Thomas Wolfe

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• What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based.

  Amy Chan

  Breakup, Choices, Growth

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Giving Up, Kindness, Flower

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• I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Moving, Loss

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

  Joanna Russ

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, California

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