Resilience quotes for when it has already gone wrong

You play the hand you’re dealt to the best of your ability.

Good pain is a sign of effort; bad pain is a sign of damage.

In most domains, talent is overrated compared to determination.

It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.

You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere.

Let’s stop looking backwards here. It’s all about what happens tomorrow.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

You find success and failure on the same road. Failure is just an earlier exit.

Successful people know that nature is testing them, and that it is not sympathetic.

Gentleness is sure to be victorious even in battle, and firmly to maintain its ground.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Sometimes it takes suffering through the wrong thing to motivate you to find the right thing.

Extraordinary accomplishments come from doing ordinary things for extraordinary periods of time.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them is not something dreadful also.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.

"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"—in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.

"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"—in those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice.

The art of life is more like the wrestler’s art than the dancer’s, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

When life doesn't give you what you want, you can be angry or sad for yourself, or you can learn about how reality works and develop principles that work well to get what you want.

Total responsibility for failure is a difficult thing to accept, and taking ownership when things go wrong requires extraordinary humility and courage.