"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
- Anna Freud
Self-awareness
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
- Anna Freud
Self-awareness
"Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned."
- Anna Freud
Inspiration
"Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child."
- Anna Freud
Adversity
"There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves."
- Anna Freud
Adversity
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience