Resilience Quotes

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?… Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared."

- Tupac Shakur

"We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams."

- Karch Kiraly

"Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them."

- Brittany Murphy

"You can shoot a million arrows at the sun, but not even one will pierce it."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again ... we are survivors. If you are here today... you are a survivor. But those of us who have made it thru hell and are still standing? We bare a different name: warriors."

- Larry Godwin

"The struggles we endure today will be the 'good old days' we laugh about tomorrow."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"You can't always control the circumstances – only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort."

- Jennie Finch

"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don't let them change who you are."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point, you are bound to stumble. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher and higher, the law of averages predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom."

- General George S. Patton Jr.

"As black women, we're always given these seemingly devastating experiences—experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as black women is take the worst situations and create from that point."

- Viola Davis

"El hombre que se levanta es aún más grande que el que no ha caído."

- Concepción Arenal

"BE STRONG! Be like the tree that, despite its fallen leaves, endures the chill of winter, looking forward to the warm spring sunshine and the bright summer."

- Mouloud Benzadi

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving—we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"When you are friends with your storm, you dance, instead of getting blown away."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"People mock, laugh, and make memes about things that are beyond their level of comprehension. And when people hate, they hate everything about you, even the things you do with good intentions."

- Verliza Gajeles

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

- Robert Southey

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Being an entrepreneur is basically just a series of unending failures... You can choose any of these moments to give up, or you can see them as learning curves that will prepare you for the next thing."

- Trinity Mouzon Wofford

"No matter where life takes me there will always be someone who's threatened by it."

- Franchesca Ramsey

"Being a nurse means to hold all your own tears and start drawing smiles on people's faces."

- Dana Basem

"An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you."

- Goi Nasu

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on"

- Robert Frost

"When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on."

- LL Cool J

"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."

- Virginia Satir

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

- General George S. Patton Jr.

"Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise, we're going down the tube."

- Joan Rivers

"The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched."

- Mindy Kaling