resilience Quotes

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.