Garrison Keillor Quotes

Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

You have to be tough.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.

Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.

You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger