Resilience Quotes

"Tough times never last, but tough people do!"

- Robert Schuller

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."

- Charles Bukowski

"When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like."

- Jenny Lawson

"Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you’ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river — and you’ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you."

- Alysha Speer

"Depression doesn’t take away your talents — it just makes them harder to find. But I always find it. I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Helen Keller

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature."

- Bram Stoker

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about."

- Jonathan Harnisch

"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."

- Suzanne Collins

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning, and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."

- Charles Bukowski

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

- Lucille Ball

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Nelson Mandela

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand."

- Randy Pausch

"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"Big clubs in Europe always go through difficult spells where it appears as though there is no light at the end of the tunnel. But because they are big clubs, they always come back, and they do so with a vengeance."

- Fernando Torres

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

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

- Robert Frost

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass but learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up."

"Mental strength is not about being strong all the time, but about being able to pick yourself up and keep going when life gets tough."

"The echoes of resilience reverberate through the corridors of despair."

- Unknown

"Stars can't shine without darkness"

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes"

"The darkest nights produce the brightest stars"

"What makes night within us may leave stars"

"Fluctuat nec mergitur"