Resilience Quotations | Page 2

It was a good game overall. I told the team that we showed a lot of resilience and came through to stay in the game, but we also talked about the negative things too.

It takes a lot of toughness and resilience to come through that. As a captain, it's doubly hard to stay tuned in and to remain tactically astute. You have to be very strong minded. To come through all that happened in the first Test and straight away to bounce back must have been hard on everyone. It's very easy when you're doing well. It's very easy to fix things if you can shut yourself away and work on it. But when something has such a big build-up and such profile, it speaks volumes for what the team has achieved.

They just never quit. They battle through adversity and don't quit. ... Again, we demonstrated a lot of resilience and made enough plays.

It was great; it was very competitive. I think both teams had opportunities to win. That's a credit to (the Panthers). They played much better in singles. I think our girls showed a lot of grit coming back and playing like they did in doubles; I think it showed great resilience on their part.

It's really about the resilience of the human spirit.

The ISM service survey joins a number of economic indicators that have shown robust economic resilience in the wake of Katrina and Rita,

I'm proud of the team's resilience to come back from the loss in Philly.

In contrast to recent consumer confidence surveys, Canadians seem to show some strong resilience toward investing, even amid rising energy prices and energy-related impacts on equity markets in the past month.

I'm very proud of the resilience that we showed. It was a great response to the adversity.

I'm cautiously optimistic there is enough resilience to carry dialogue forward.

In the fourth quarter, we really showed our resilience and our confidence in one another.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Higher interest rates have been weathered by home buyers through the use of adept home financing techniques. Nevertheless, the resilience in the housing sector will support further monetary tightening by the Fed.

By working together with our customers and members we can strengthen international networks, reducing costs and increasing network resilience for Internet users on both sides of the Atlantic.

But I think the way the market is acting is actually healthy. You're seeing a real resilience on the part of the market. You're seeing a willingness to shrug off or contextualize not great news, which is a big improvement over June and July, when if the market was open, it was down.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

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.

He sleeps and sleeps, and the days go by, ... I love him dearly and for ever, but this lack of drive in any direction is a bad augury for the future. I am willing and happy to look after him for the rest of my life, but he must do something. If only he would take up some occupation and stick to it. I know that he is unhappy inside but, alas, with his natural resilience these moments of self-revelation dissipate and on go the years, and he will be an elderly man who has achieved nothing at all.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

I attribute it to innovative marketing, rebellion by the people, you tell them not to smoke they're going to do it anyway, and a faster resilience by the industry.

grand display of maturity that seals our stability and resilience as a nation.

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

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.

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

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.

September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.

Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

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.

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

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,

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

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

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

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

Although growth has declined slightly from the second and third quarters, the market's resilience in the face of rising interest rates, high fuel prices, a weaker Euro, and other potential inhibitors puts the market in a great position to start 2006.

Your resilience is incredible. Each of you proved to yourself and to the rest of the world that you are pretty incredible. You have left an indelible mark.

The economy has shown tremendous resilience in the face of energy prices so far. But this latest spike will have a noticeable effect in the next couple of months.

The economy was firing on almost all cylinders. It is continuing to show the resilience we've seen time and time again.

The first few days, I worked about seven hours on each scene with him. He just kept wanting to do it better. He never went to self-pity or said, 'What do you want from me?' even though it was difficult. I knew he had resilience and self-confidence. He worked very hard, never complained, never was in a bad humor.

The company and the brand have shown strength and resilience in a difficult environment, ... We are pleased to have generated increased revenue in a tough economy and continue to operate this business with a long-term outlook.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

The markets' resilience at the moment is remarkable.

The market has run up too far, too fast. But it's been showing resilience (to profit-taking). Selling has been mounting up on recent gainers such as banks and steels, but they seem to be holding up fairly well,

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.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

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

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

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.