I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.
~ William Ernest Henley
You did it! You are free!!!!!!!!
~ Paige Garland
Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.
~ Iben Dissing Sandahl
What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.
~ Jeanne Safer
People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.
~ David Brudnoy
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
~ Brené Brown
Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.
~ Isabel Gillies
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
~ Gever Tulley
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
~ Joan Halifax
There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.
~ David Petraeus
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
~ Sheri L. Dew
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
~ Naomi Wolf
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.
~ Mike Leigh
When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.
~ Coretta Scott King
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
~ Elie Wiesel
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
~ Ian Botham
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
~ Shiv Nadar
Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.
~ Daphne Oz
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.
~ Patti Davis
Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.
~ Jean Chatzky
While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.
~ Michael Greger
Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
~ Kris Carr
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 Iii
In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.
~ George Osborne
Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.
~ Renee James
