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Resilience.

Bouncing back stronger from adversity and hardship.

“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”

“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”

William Hazlitt

“The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.”

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”

Albert Einstein

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

Winston Churchill

“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.”

Abraham Lincoln

“If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.”

John C. Maxwell

“To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.”

John C. Maxwell

“When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.”

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.”

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”

Marcus Aurelius

“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.”

“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.”

“One problem with young people, they think business is cool. It's not cool, it's tough.”

“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”

“You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.”

George S. Patton

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

Albert Einstein

“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

“Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.”

“In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.”

G.K. Chesterton

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Winston Churchill

“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

“Sometimes the destination is worth all the troubles you endure along the way.”

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”