No Matter How You Say It: Resilience
Word Origin
Resilience comes from the Latin root resiliens, from re– “back” + salire “to jump, leap”. Can you see how Resilience is rebounding or jumping back?
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Sign Language
Resilient – Can you see how Resilient is working your way to success?
Defeatist – Can you see how Defeatist is thinking negatively?
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Resilience Idioms
- Be a fighter
- Be adaptable
- Be like a fire
- Be like a mountain
- Be like a phoenix rising from the ashes
- Be like a river
- Be like a rubber band
- Be like a seed
- Be like a star
- Be like a sunbeam
- Be like a wave
- Be like a willow tree
- Be optimistic
- Be persistent
- Be resourceful
- Be strong-willed
- Bend without breaking
- Bounce back
- Bouncing back
- Find the silver lining
- Have a can-do attitude
- Have a never-say-die attitude
- Have a positive outlook
- Have a tough skin
- Have grit
- Make the best of a bad situation
- Never give up
- Pick yourself up by your bootstraps
- Rise above the ashes
- Roll with the punches
- Snapping back
- Tough as nails
- Turn lemons into lemonade
- Weather the storm
In Other Languages
Spanish – resiliencia
French – résilience
German – Widerstandsfähigkeit
Italian – resilienza
Swedish – elasticitet
Basque – erresilientzia
Portugese – resiliência