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51. Michael Rutter
Resilience is our ability to bounce back from life’s challenges and unforeseen difficulties, providing mental protection from emotional and mental disorders.
52. Ivan Robertson
Resilience represents a constellation of characteristics that protect individuals from the potential negative effect of stressors.
53. Helen Herrman
Definitions have evolved over time but fundamentally resilience is understood as referring to positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health, despite experiencing adversity.
54. Byron Egeland
Resilience has been described as the capacity for positive outcomes despite challenging or threatening circumstances.
55. Cary Cooper
The behavioral component of resilience enables people to remain effective at home and work, able to focus on relevant tasks and goals and carry them out.
56. Christine Agaibi and John Wilson
It is possible to define the property of resilience as a complex repertoire of behavioral tendencies that may be evoked or activated by environmental demands.
57. Laura Campbell-Sills
Resilience is seen as more than simple recovery from insult, rather it can be defined as positive growth or adaptation following periods of homeostatic disruption.
58. Kathryn Connor and Jonathan Davidson
Resilience embodies the personal qualities that enable one to thrive in the face of adversity.
59. Dmitry Davydov
Resilience can be viewed as a defence mechanism, which enables people to thrive in the face of adversity and improving resilience may be an important target for treatment and prophylaxis.
60. David Fletcher and Mustafa Sarkar
When resilience is conceived as a trait, it has been suggested that it represents a constellation of characteristics that enable individuals to adapt to the circumstances they encounter.
61. Brigid Gillespie
Resilience arises out of a belief in one’s own self-efficacy, the ability to deal with change, and use of a repertoire of problem-solving skills.
62. Hyun Lee and James Cranford
Resilience can refer to positive adjustment in the face of adversity. Resilience has also been defined as the capacity of individuals to cope successfully with significant change, adversity or risk.
63. Rachel Jackson and Chris Watkin
Resilience is fundamentally underpinned by the concept that it is not so much the hard times we face that determine our success or failure as the way in which we respond to those hard times.
64. Emmy Werner
If we want to help vulnerable youngsters become more resilient, we need to decrease their exposure to potent risk factors and increase their competencies and self-esteem, as well as the sources of support they can draw upon.
65. George Bonanno
Resilience to the unsettling effects of interpersonal loss is not rare but relatively common, does not appear to indicate pathology but rather healthy adjustment, and does not lead to delayed grief reactions.
66. Laura Dunn
Stable, healthy, and resilient physicians are also better equipped for the emotionally and physically demanding tasks of providing care, comfort and hope to patients.
67. Brigid Gillespie
Resilience is viewed as a vital attribute for nurses because it augments adaptation in demanding and volatile clinical environments such as operating rooms.
68. Qing Gu and Christopher Day
Firstly, it is unrealistic to expect pupils to be resilient if their teachers, who constitute a primary source of their role models, do not demonstrate resilient qualities.
69. Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk
All mentally tough individuals are resilient, but not all resilient individuals are mentally tough.
70. Michele Tugade and Barbara Fredrickson
Being able to move on despite negative stressors does not demonstrate luck on the part of those successful individuals but demonstrates a concept known as resilience.
71. Glenn Schiraldi
Resilience is a process and a staircase. You might be on step four of the staircase, and I might be on step one, but we can both keep moving up the staircase so that our resilience levels will hopefully exceed the rising tide of stress.
72. Meetu Khosla
Resilience is experienced as a global process relating to psychological, social and behavioral qualities involving genetic, developmental and neurochemical mechanisms.
73. Hyun Lee and James Cranford
Family environments characterized by stability, cohesion, organization, and preservation of routines and rituals may be most conducive to resilience among adolescents.
74. Suniya Luthar and Dante Cicchetti
Resilience research has substantial potential to guide the development of effective interventions for diverse at-risk populations … to forces that are protective in nature as well as to those that exacerbate vulnerability, and to the mechanisms that underlie their effects.
75. Lisa Neff and Elizabeth Broady
Individuals who are exposed to moderately stressful experiences and who have the initial resources necessary to overcome those stressors may develop a resilience to the deleterious effects of later stress.
76. Russ Newman
Resilience is a multidimensional and not a unitary concept. There is no one characteristic or trait identified as resilience. Rather, there are many behaviors and actions associated with resilience.
77. Cale Palmer
In terms of fostering resiliency prior to the development of symptoms, current research suggests that certain aspects of military life, such as field training exercises, unit cohesiveness, physical fitness, and leadership may be beneficial as part of preparedness interventions.
78. Joseph Mahoney and Lars Bergman
The study of resilience represents a special subclass of research on positive functioning as it applies to risk populations under adversity… one limitation of resilience research is the neglect of a large range of positive functioning beyond the absence of problems.
79. Ann Masten
The conclusion that resilience is made of ordinary rather than extraordinary processes offers a more positive outlook on human development and adaptation, as well as direction for policy and practice aimed at enhancing the development of children at risk for problems and psychopathology.
80. Audrey Hepburn
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!
81. John Skoll
Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn’t make a difference in the world. I think that’s just a horrible thing.
82. Arthur Ashe
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
83. Steve Schulte
The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?
84. Jimmy Johnson
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
85. Ayn Rand
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?
86. Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead, is getting started.
87. Sophie Kinsella
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
88. Henry J. Kaiser
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
89. Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
90. Simon Sinek
What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
91. Mahatma Gandhi
You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it
92. Henry Ford
You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do
93. Steve Goodier
My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.
94. Douglas MacArthur
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
95. Bob Nelson
People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
96. Stephen R. Covey
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
97. Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
98. Komil Toume
The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’
99. Ari Weinzweig
If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work.
100. Kilroy J. Oldster
Employees aren’t just workers, they’re the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business.
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