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21 " We all need resilience to live a fulfilling life. With resilience, you’ll be more prepared to take on challenges, to develop your talents, skills, and abilities so that you can live with more purpose and more joy. I hope something here can help you to become stronger. I look forward to walking with you on this path. "
― Eric Greitens , Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
22 " But the longer you hesitate, the hairier and scarier the fear becomes. The longer you hesitate, the more likely you are to turn around and crawl back under the covers. Screw that, Walker. It’s time to begin. "
23 " The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses . . . in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. —MUHAMMAD ALI "
24 " If you start with humility, you see every person as your teacher. "
25 " What you will become is a result of what you are willing to endure. Are you willing to work hard? To think hard? I know that you are. You always have been. "
26 " We all need something to struggle against and to struggle for. The aim in life is not to avoid struggles, but to have the right ones; not to avoid worry, but to care about the right things; not to live without fear, but to confront worthy fears with force and "
27 " Beware the person who seeks to lead and has not suffered, who claims responsibility on the grounds of a spotless record. "
28 " Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength—if we have the virtue of resilience. "
29 " When we rob people of their pain—when we don’t allow them the possibility of failure—we also rob them of their happiness. "
30 " Virtues that are not practiced die. Resilience that is not practiced weakens. "
31 " Accept that you are imperfect and always will be. Your quest is not to perfect yourself, but to better your imperfect self. "
32 " Know this: anyone who does anything worthy, anything noble, anything meaningful, will have critics. "
33 " And it’s often in those battles that we are most alive: it’s on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you’ll have to fight for it. "
34 " Most mentors have earned their wisdom only because they have struggled themselves. "
35 " Fortune will play her hand. And when she stands between us and flourishing, all we can do is live our best life. One "
36 " At the root of resilience is the willingness to take responsibility for results. "
37 " Beginning brings fear. It doesn’t matter whether you’re launching yourself into space, standing waist-deep in grab-your-bones-and-make-’em-shake freezing water on the first night of Hell Week, sitting down to write a novel, applying for a job, or thinking about starting your own business—you’ll feel fear. "
38 " Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge. —MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI "
39 " insights come through practice. When we work at something, we come to see it differently. "
40 " Five variables go into training or practice of any kind: frequency, intensity, duration, recovery, and reflection. "