Resilience Quotes

"The game will test you, but never fold. Stay ten toes down. It’s not on you, it’s in you, and what’s in you, they can never take away."

- Nipsey Hussle

"What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger"

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Surviving is the new art form."

- Bill Watterson

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it."

- Helen Keller

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”"

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"“When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”"

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”"

- Banksy

"Adoption was a bumpy ride – very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight."

- Mariska Hargitay

"The way adoption has impacted my life is that every relationship, every situation is filtered through the prism of the trauma. I have found healing through connection with other adoptees, but it is about living with being adopted and knowing we are like an alien species in this world."

- Julia Richardson

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny..."

- C.S. Lewis

"It’s okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire."

- Colette Werden

"There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself."

- Hannah Gadsby

"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. People can't stop you. Only you can stop you."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

""Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.""

- Winston Churchill

""It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.""

- Vince Lombardi

"The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night. And everything that I do shall be upfull and right."

- Bob Marley

"I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great."

- Greta Gerwig

"The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom."

- Rudy Giuliani

"The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves."

- Rudy Giuliani

"A winner is one who accepts his failures and mistakes, picks up the pieces, and continues striving to reach his goals."

"Strength through struggle."

"No matter what happens, life does go on."

"Nothing can replace the loss of a loved one, but life goes on, and we have to live for those we love."

"Not that water is any use to a dead body,” he said to himself, “but the feeling that you’re doing something, when there’s obviously nothing to be done, is a great comfort."

"Trouble is temporary"

"Sometimes, the strongest people in the morning are the people who cried all night."

"We are all a little broken. But last time I checked, broken crayons still color."