50 Inspirational Quotes About Injury to Motivate Your Comeback

"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle."

- Sanya Richards-Ross

"Injuries make you stronger."

- Seth Rollins

"My attitude is that if you push me towards a weakness, I will turn that weakness into a strength"

- Michael Jordan

"Goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable."

- Michael Phelps

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

- Arnold Palmer

"Where you are now is not where you will always be. Just keep on trying, and know that tomorrow really is a new day."

- Jen Goodwin

"Ultimately, life is short. The best thing to do is to experience as much as you can in the time you are here. Despite your spinal cord injury, I believe you are still meant for great things. Believe in yourself too!"

- Mason Ellis

"You may have to sit down – but never let yourself sit still."

- Meena Outlaw

"Take what you are given and make the most of it."

- James

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is"

- Vince Lombardi

"The hard days are the best because that’s where champions are made."

- Gabby Douglas

"Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference."

- Eric Greitens

"The greater the challenge, the greater the joy in overcoming it. Never let anything or anyone stop you from fulfilling your dreams."

- Steve

"I want everyone I come across to discover their inner champion, get off the sidelines of life, get in the race, and know that the finish line is within their reach."

- Tricia Downing

"Life in a chair isn’t always easy, but I promise that you can get stronger to handle so much of what you’re facing. Keep up the fight!"

- Amberley Snyder

"In life, you have a choice. You can either look back or look forward. I choose to look forward."

- Ian

"Success is built out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive"

- Stephen Curry

"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up"

- Dean Karnazes

"Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion."

- Michael Jordan

"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble."

- Troy Polamalu

"To persevere is important to everybody. Don’t give up. Don’t Give in. There is always an answer to everything."

- Louis Zamperini

"The road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the ability to constantly overcome adversity and failure"

- Nike

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before."

- Ali Krieger

"Once you choose hope, anything’s possible."

- Christopher Reeve

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before."

- Carli Lloyd

"Never let anyone tell you that you cannot do something just because of your spinal cord injury. It’s sometimes just a matter of figuring out how to do it in a new way. Above all, never give up."

- Ryan

"You can't control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back."

- Brittney Griner

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

- M. Kathleen Casey

"You are stronger than you know, braver than you believe, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"It hasn't always been easy. There's a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use."

- Kyle Korver

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

- Cayla Mills

"I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming."

- Kobe Bryant

"Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere."

- Edge

"I wouldn't take any of my injuries back; I feel like I'm stronger as an athlete because of all those setbacks."

- Eloise Wellings

"I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place."

- Kobe Bryant

"I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That's how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you're in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want."

- Adrian Peterson

"I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler."

- Harmon Killebrew

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

- Helen Keller

"My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine."

- Ronda Rousey

"Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn't scream, doesn't fake injury."

- David Moyes

"Injuries have always kept me going, always kept me motivated, actually taught me how much I have to put hard yards and the hard work has always increased, never decreased."

- Hardik Pandya

"I've dealt with plenty of injuries in my career, including six broken ankles and a torn ACL."

- Laird Hamilton

"Injuries are psychologically so hard for an athlete because you don't get to do what you love to do."

- Julian Edelman

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole."

- China Miéville

"Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury."

- Jim Beaver

"There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive."

- Alan Paton

"You can’t go through life allowing pain to dictate how you behave. It’s easy to sit here in your bedroom and wallow in your hurt feelings. It’s hard to rise above it."

- Adam Braverman

"Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes."

- Kevin R. Stone

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

"Nobody notices, only you've known, you're not sick, not crazy, not angry, not sad-- It's just this, you're injured."

- Claudia Rankine

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid."

- Kyrie Irving

"Fairytales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist; but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- GK Chesterton

"Of course, I made some mistakes as Arsenal goalie but I am sure that people also remember that I was unlucky with injuries."

- Lukasz Fabianski

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

- Marcus Aurelius

"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Just because your version of normal isn’t the same as someone else’s version doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with you."

- John Boyne

"There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke."

- Evel Knievel

"I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been."

- Barry Larkin

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."

- Maya Angelou

"When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less."

- C.S. Lewis

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries."

- Maimonides

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."

- Thomas Szasz

"Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being."

- Mahavira

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

- John Stuart Mill

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

- Socrates

"We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor."

- Robert E. Lee

"'What day is it?', asked Winnie the Pooh. 'It’s today,' squeaked Piglet. 'My favourite day,' said Pooh."

- A. A. Milne

"My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain."

- Charlie Chaplin

"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."

- Aesop

"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

- Khalil Gibran

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

- Xenophon

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started"

- Anonymous

"Turn your setbacks into comebacks"

- Anonymous

"No athlete is truly tested until they’ve stared an injury in the face and came out on the other side stronger than ever"

- Anonymous

"When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is"

- Anonymous

"The ones who say ‘You can’t’ and ‘You won’t’ are probably the ones scared that you will"

- Anonymous

"Never let a stumble in the road be the end of a journey."

- Anonymous

"Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I will do what others can’t"

- Anonymous

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t"

- Anonymous

"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat."

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

"The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment."

- Anonymous

"Remember the guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else."

- Anonymous

"Being challenged is inevitable. Being defeated is optional"

- Anonymous