Persistence And Resilience Quotes

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens.

After reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded, for there might come difficult paths again ahead.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.

Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

No matter how many times you cut down a resilient tree, it will keep growing.

If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim’s Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn an man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else — pathway to the stars, maybe. I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without benefit of drugs or orgies, have more fun.

This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

Grit, persistence, adaptability, financial literacy, interview skills, human relationships, conversation, communication, managing technology, navigating conflicts, preparing healthy food, physical fitness, resilience, self-regulation, time management, basic psychology and mental health practices, arts, and music—all of these would help students and also make school seem much more relevant. Our fixation on college readiness leads our high school curricula toward purely academic subjects and away from life skills. The purpose of education should be to enable a citizen to live a good, positive, socially productive life independent of work.

Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.

Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

Be like the sun; never let the opinions of those who hate you dull your shine.

We may lose battles but we are stronger and the only thing that can defeat us ultimately is our willingness to accept defeat. We cannot accept defeat. I do not accept defeat.

The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.

An axe cuts through a forest not because of its size, but its endurance.

The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.

A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.

Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; lions have little in common with sheep.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded. [Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]

A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it.

If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.

The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.

If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

Wasn’t it amazing how resilient people were, how they persisted, how they kept trying to connect!

What is life but hunger and resilience? Persistent thriving no matter the conditions? What better kin to have?

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

It is easier to move mountains using God's hands.

A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship.

Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success.

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn.

Great men are made in the crucible of experiences

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, “At least now I can see the stars.

Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.

A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles.

An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.

On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim’s Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else—pathway to the stars, maybe.

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.

In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.

Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.

Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist. And persist. And persist. She may alternate between wanting to protect her mother and resenting her, an advance-and-retreat dance of identification and rejection than can span years.

Passion is that strong feeling of emotion, ecstasy, or excitement which you feel for something or someone. This sizzling desire can light up your soul and fuel your commitment to be persistent in spite of obstacles and unfavorable circumstances. This depth of motivation can transform your life unlike anything else and reignite your purpose and your passion.

The world is not interested in the difficulties you face. You must learn to pursue excellence and show remarkable resilience no matter the circumstances.

If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.

Get use to rejection. No one starts from the bottom with applause or the word yes being heard often.

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

Today’s caterpillars are tomorrow’s butterflies.

The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

Against all odds, a seed rises from darkness and beautifies the universe.

You are a seed; that is why God plants you in adversity when He wants you to grow.

A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.

Shatter your fears and you will shatter records.

The next time the world tells you “Stop”, “Don’t”, or “You can’t do this”, the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, “No, I want to do this.

All of my grandparents epitomized the best qualities and characteristics of being human, among them resiliency. They faced the worst that life threw at them with the best of what they were. Just as important, they demonstrated one significant reality about resiliency: it is a quiet, persistent process. While hardship, difficulties, and disaster might befall us in a blinding moment, resiliency responds subtly. It does not bring results in one fell swoop, but moment by moment and one step at a time.

Out of love and desire to protect our children's self-esteem, we have bulldozed every uncomfortable bump and obstacle out of the way, clearing the manicured path we hoped would lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately, in doing so we have deprived our children of the most important lessons of childhood. The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations, and failures we have shoved out of our children's way are the very experiences that teach them how to be resourceful, persistent, innovative and resilient citizens of this world.

So what should we praise? The effort, the strategies, the doggedness and persistence, the grit people show, the resilience that they show in the face of obstacles, that bouncing back when things go wrong and knowing what to try next. So I think a huge part of promoting a growth mindset in the workplace is to convey those values of process, to give feedback, to reward people engaging in the process, and not just a successful outcome.

Losing means winning if you are resilient and persistent. Everything great now has its imperfect versions in the past.

Wake up, start walking and stop not till the world is lifted.

To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky.

If you run a hundred miles in your heart, you are ready to run a hundred miles on your feet.

When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven.

Champions are made in the dark before they are revealed in light.

The sweetest victories come after the bitterest defeats.

The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity.

Believe in yourself, not in your critics.

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.

Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark.

Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow.

Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.

Heat makes things expand; that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.

The rainbow’s colors are hidden in the storm.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.

Grit embodies—but is not the same as—resilience, ambition, and self-control. The University of Pennsylvania psychologist and researcher Angela Duckworth defines it as passion and sustained persistence in trying to achieve a goal over the very long haul, with no particular concern for rewards or recognition along the way. Resilience is about overcoming adversity; ambition, at some level, suggests a desire for wealth, fame, and/or power; self-control can help you resist temptations, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re persistently pursuing a long-term goal.

What unites the wisest trails, I have found, is a balance of three values: durability, efficiency, and flexibility. If a trail has only one of these qualities it will not persist for long: a trail that is too durable will be too fixed, and will fail when conditions change; a trail that is too flexible will be too flimsy, and will erode; and a trail that is too efficient will be too parsimonious, and so will lack resilience.

Clutch required choosing; flow required experiencing. Two different states. Both bringing about top performance. One requires grit, the other grace. One accepting, the other a conscious decision. In many ways, the clutch-versus-flow paradigm reflects toughness. We tend to think of it as a singular method: push through, persist. But as we’ve come to realize, that’s a false constriction. Being tough means being able to choose the right strategy, given your abilities and the situation.

Eventually, I came to realize that doubt was a companion, every bit as resilient and persistent as faith, and she wasn’t going away. I realized that she had some things to teach me, and I decided that since I couldn’t shut her up or drive her away, I might as well learn from her. She has turned out to be a tough but effective teacher and a difficult but faithful friend.

To Pocock, this unflagging resilience—this readiness to bounce back, to keep coming, to persist in the face of resistance—was the magic in cedar, the unseen force that imparted life to the shell. And as far as he was concerned, a shell that did not have life in it was a shell that was unworthy of the young men who gave their hearts to the effort of moving it through the water.

Let’s listen again to Dencombe: 'Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.' I love the fact that he uses the word 'passion' and the word 'task' in the same sentence—the one so exalted, the other so commonplace. More than this, I love that he equates them. Our passion is our task. To follow the calling of art, to keep faith with it, to continue with your daily labors despite the frustrations, the distractions, and the other varieties of madness that will inevitably beset you—all this requires passion, but it also requires something else, something more down-to-earth. Call it steeliness. Call it persistence. Call it tenacity. Call it resilience. Call it devotion. Whatever you decide to call it, the ability to consecrate yourself to the daily task of art isn’t rooted in madness. As James knew, as Dencombe knew, it’s rooted in sanity.

I will intentionally establish an unfazed mindset and attack my most significant life goals, persisting through obstacles until I achieve them. My foremost objective is to compete every day with my former self—to become more as a person—so that I can achieve more in all life’s essential arenas: relationships, health, finances, family, spirituality, the workplace. As I purposefully upgrade critical success traits, I’ll build a confidence and resilience that makes me unstoppable as

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim’s Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else—pathway to the stars, maybe. I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.

You’ve probably heard of the “Romanian orphans.” It is likely that more than five hundred thousand children spent part of their early lives in the state-run institutional orphanages during the Ceauşescu regime in Romania; in 1989, when communism ended in the country, the public and press saw the horrible conditions these children had been subjected to. There were often forty to sixty babies or toddlers in a single large room, each in their own crib all day long, with only one or two caregivers rotating among them over the course of a twelve-hour shift. The children suffered deprivation, malnutrition, abuse, and more. Even after being removed from the institutions, they grew up with a range of deficits. Some had low IQs, others couldn’t walk, most had major problems forming and maintaining relationships. I worked with many children removed from these orphanages. In general, the longer the child was there, the longer the deprivation, the more serious the problems. Ironically, in some overcrowded institutions, children who had to share cribs ultimately did better. The Romanian orphans are now adults; for most of them, problems persist. As a group they are much more likely to be unemployed, have mental and physical health problems, and have difficulties with relationships.