Resilience

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

A friend is known in times of trouble.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

This too shall pass.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.