"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
Resilience
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- Christopher Robin
Courage
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
Perseverance
"Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
- Bruce Lee
Courage
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus
Resilience
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
- Robert Schuller
Resilience
"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
Courage
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."
- Maya Angelou
Courage
"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
- Marcus Aurelius
Resilience
"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
- Michelle Obama
Courage
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
- Emily Dickinson
Hope
"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."
- Vince Lombardi
Resilience
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
- C.S. Lewis
Adversity
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
Resilience
"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
"No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience."
- Eric Greitens
Resilience
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."
- Christian D. Larson
Belief in Self
"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."
- Elizabeth Edwards
Resilience
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."
- J.K. Rowling
Resilience
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope
"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."
- Jodi Picoult
Resilience
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."
- Cayla Mills
Strength
"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good."
- Elizabeth Edwards
Resilience
"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.
Resilience
"No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience."
- Eric Greitens
Resilience
"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
- Haruki Murakami
Transformation
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Self-awareness
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perseverance
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward."
- Rocky Balboa
Perseverance
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope
"Never give in. Never, never, never."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
- Steve Maraboli
Resilience
"There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful the experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster."
- 14th Dalai Lama
Resilience
"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
- Marcus Aurelius
Inner Peace
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
Resilience
"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill
Growth
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
- Kenji Miyazawa
Courage
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Kahlil Gibran
Resilience
"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
- Walt Disney
Strength
"A good half of the art of living is resilience."
- Alain de Botton
Resilience
"You may not always have a comfortable life, and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
- Michelle Obama
Empowerment
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
New Beginnings
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength."
- Napoléon Bonaparte
Courage
"Storms make trees take deeper roots."
- Dolly Parton
Resilience
"Grief and resilience live together."
- Michelle Obama
Resilience
"It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
- The Dalai Lama
Contribution
"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."
- Greg Kincaid
Resilience
"Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is."
- Anne Frank
Belief in Self
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
- Marie Curie
Perseverance
"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."
- Angela Duckworth
Resilience
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."
- Randy Pausch
Determination
"It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed."
- Doe Zantamata
Inner Peace
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
- Nelson Mandela
Resilience
"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
- Lou Holtz
Adversity
"What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment."
- Roy T. Bennett
Resilience
"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop."
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Courage
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Resilience
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
- Oprah Winfrey
Resilience
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need."
- Lao Tzu
Transformation
"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton
Optimism
"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
- Robert Jordan
Resilience
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin."
- Gregory S Williams
Resilience
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
Resilience
"We all have battles to fight. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work."
- Eric Greitens
Courage
"Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going."
- Yasmin Mogahed
Resilience
"Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."
- Drew Barrymore
Overcoming Obstacles
"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."
- Andrew Solomon
Courage
"Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal."
- Jonathan Mills
Resilience
"Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive."
- Jean Chatzky
Resilience
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."
- Nelson Mandela
Resilience
"No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can't take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action."
- Ryder Carroll
Empowerment
"Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength."
- Chris Bradford
Strength
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
- Thomas A. Edison
Perseverance
"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."
- Paulo Coelho
Courage
"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger."
- Dalai Lama
Strength
"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you."
- Ovid
Perseverance
"Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it."
- Joel Osteen
Empowerment
"We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
- Stephen Covey
Resilience
"Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others."
- Sharon Salzberg
Resilience
"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill
Growth
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
- Chinese Proverb
Growth
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Strength
"If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it."
- Michael Jordan
Determination
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie
Perseverance
"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."
- Bob Riley
Adversity
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
- Helen Keller
Strength
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen R. Covey
Belief in Self
"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
Overcoming Obstacles
"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."
- Roy T. Bennett
Empowerment
"We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us."
- William J. Brennan, Jr.
Courage
"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages."
- Michelle Obama
Empowerment
"If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep going."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Perseverance
"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Belief in Self
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-awareness
"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."
- Roger Crawford
Overcoming Obstacles
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott
Courage
"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong."
- Sarah Dessen
Courage
"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength"
- Oprah
Strength
"Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing."
- Emma Donoghue
Bravery
"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
Failure
"In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."
- Drew Barrymore
Strength
"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Motivation
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven't."
- Thomas A. Edison
Persistence
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn so that we see ourselves as we really are."
- Arthur Golden
Adversity
"My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down."
- Bob Moore
Resilience
"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Personal Growth
"You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong."
- Margaret George
Courage
"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong... I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
- Audrey Hepburn
Hope
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Resilience
"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
- Bernard Baruch
Wisdom
"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
- John Wooden
Optimism
"Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible."
- Mike Norton
Empowerment
"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."
- Muhammad Ali
Courage
"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat."
- Woodrow Wilson
Resilience
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right."
- Henry Ford
Belief in Self
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
- Ernest Hemingway
Strength
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- Henry Ford
Courage
"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."
- Jim Rohn
Personal Growth
"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."
- William Samuel Johnson
Strength
"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."
- Wayne Dyer
Belief
"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."
- Joel Osteen
Hope
"When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience."
- Jaeda Dewalt
Resilience
"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Hope
"Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient."
- Catherine DeVrye
Resilience
"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost
Resilience
"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present."
- Steve Goodier
Resilience
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
- Christopher Reeve
Courage
"However long the night, the dawn will break."
- African Proverb
Hope
"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward."
- Oscar Wilde
Learning
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
- Thomas Paine
Courage
"Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Courage
"One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."
- Michael J. Fox
Integrity
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
Leadership
"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."
- Wes Fessler
Resilience
"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
- Bob Riley
Courage
"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy
Resilience
"Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain."
- Emil Dorian
Resilience
"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."
- Criss Jami
Strength
"It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks."
- Bob Richards
Resilience
"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."
- Cicely Tyson
Personal Growth
"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within: strength, courage, and dignity."
- Ruby Dee
Strength
"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."
- Mizuta Masahide
Resilience
"Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings; it’s something we make inside ourselves."
- Corrie Ten Boom
Happiness
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
- Louisa May Alcott
Belief
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
- Seneca
Bravery
"We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
- Barbara De Angelis
Courage
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
- Hermann Hesse
Belief
"the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
- J.K. Rowling
New Beginnings
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain."
- Vivian Greene
Adaptation
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life."
- Jean-Luc Picard
Philosophy
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
Failure
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."
- Joseph Campbell
Growth
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Strength
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll
Mindfulness
"The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."
- Rita Mero
Resilience
"Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you."
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Perseverance
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- Japanese Proverb
Resilience
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
- Chuck Swindoll
Optimism
"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
- Neil Gaiman
Resilience
"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."
- Muhammad Ali
Adversity
"Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."
- Rocky Balboa
Resilience
"I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit."
- Shayne McClendon
Self-care
"We all have battles to fight. And it’s often in those battles that we are most alive: it’s on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work."
- Eric Greitens
Resilience
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
- James Allen
Mindfulness
"Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves."
- Corrie ten Boom
Happiness
"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."
- Bob Marley
Strength
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."
- J.K. Rowling
Teamwork
"Energy and persistence conquers all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
Determination
"I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me."
- Dr. Seuss
Bravery
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Inspiration
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
- Epictetus
Courage
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
- Randy Pausch
Adaptation
"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
- Walt Disney
Strength
"Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations."
- Zig Ziglar
Hope
"Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."
- Demi Lovato
Happiness
"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."
- Elizabeth Edwards
Resilience
"Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Motivation
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
Failure
"If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you."
- Tom Althouse
Perseverance
"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill
Optimism
"Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able."
- Corrie ten Boom
Compassion
"Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living."
- Rachel Marie Martin
Personal Growth
"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t."
- Gertrude B. Elion
Courage
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
- Ulysses S. Grant
Relationships
"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."
- Bram Stoker
Resilience
"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs."
- Jillian Michaels
Persistence
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
- Henry Ward Beecher
Resilience
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington
Motivation
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
- Leo Buscaglia
Awareness
"By the darkness, stars are revealed."
- Evette Carter
Hope
"One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys."
- Dr. Al Lorin
Reflection
"Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Resilience
"Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Gratitude
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
- Carl Bard
New Beginnings
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
- Sir Edmund Hillary
Personal Growth
"If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."
- Shane Koyczan
Resilience
"Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise."
- Anurag Prakash Ray
Adversity
"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."
- Stanley McChrystal
Leadership
"Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs
Creativity
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."
- Florence Nightingale
Success
"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."
- Margaret Atwood
Resilience
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
- Stephen Hawking
Change
"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."
- Zig Ziglar
Success
"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
- Thomas Jefferson
Self-awareness
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…"
- Dr. Seuss
Independence
"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."
- Conan O’Brien
Hard Work
"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."
- Jane Goodall
Compassion
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
- Frederick Keonig
Gratitude
"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
- Alexandre Dumas
Awareness
"I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."
- Rita Mero
Growth
"When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
- John F Kennedy
Change
"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."
- L.M. Montgomery
Learning from Mistakes
"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."
- Henry Kissinger
Strength
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
- William Ellery Channing
Strength
"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."
- Gever Tulley
Resilience
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
- Harry Golden
Hard Work
"Ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in"
- Leonard Cohen
Hope
"Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin’ the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it’s not all like that... When you start lookin’ around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."
- Jim Coates
Hope
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."
- Jaques Prevert
Happiness
"Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day."
- Alice Morse Earle
Optimism
"Attitude-flexibility is the mentality that helps us to smoothly persevere through turbulent times."
- Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Adaptation
"Sometimes you learn, grow, and give far more when your back's against the wall."
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Personal Growth
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
- Corrie ten Boom
Awareness
"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Hope
"Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren't so challenging."
- Carrie Fisher
Growth
"It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure."
- Saim A. Cheeda
Gratitude
"Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that you will be okay no matter how things turn out."
- Garth Ennis
Positivity
"Do or do not. There is no try."
- Yoda
Determination
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
- Zahid Abas
Awareness
"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Insight
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it."
- Anne Lamott
Creativity
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
- Michael Jordan
Teamwork
"I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, Never settle for the path of least resistance."
- Lee Ann Womack
Aspirations
"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say."
- Barbara McClintock
Belief in Self
"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."
- Maya Angelou
Change
"And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It’s all about light and shade. Balance."
- Gabrielle Williams
Balance
"It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."
- Germany Kent
Gratitude
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance."
- Gabrielle Williams
Balance
"Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich."
- Jim Carrey
Motivation
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
- Robin Williams
Influence
"Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that?"
- Lisa Claymen
Optimism
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing."
- Marc Chagall
Creativity
"When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers."
- Grizz Chapman
Awareness
"Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not."
- Dr. Seuss
Responsibility
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership
"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend."
- Walt Disney
Creativity
"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Compassion
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
Inspiration
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau
Goals
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success
"I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Taking Risks
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
- Salvador Dali
Ambition
"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl
Imagination
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
Inspiration
"Be the attitude you want to be around."
- Tim DeTellis
Influence
"Imitation is suicide."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily."
- Jack Canfield
Vision
"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
- Coco Chanel
Awareness
"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
- Latin Proverb
Determination
"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."
- George R.R. Martin
Self-awareness
"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."
- Chinua Achebe
Resilience
"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."
- Ernest Hemingway
Mindfulness
"Hire character. Train skill."
- Peter Schutz
Leadership
"I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go."
- Jeffrey McDaniel
Nature
"You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again."
- Phillip Roth
Courage
"There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more."
- Robert M. Hensel
Compassion
"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."
- Antos Parrish
Leadership
"If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path."
- Buddha
Compassion
"If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big."
- Tom Hirshfield
Goals
"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."
- Betty White
Joy
"Be undeniable."
- Ralphie May
Courage
"Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that."
- Ellen Degeneres
Personal Growth
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"It’s easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it’s hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees."
- Tony Fadell
Insight
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
- Charles Buxton
Motivation
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."
- Conrad Hilton
Success
"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
- Saint Francis
Motivation
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
Success
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
- Confucius
Determination
"How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved."
- Shuri
Growth
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
Creativity
"We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts."
- Madeleine L’Engle
Empowerment
"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."
- Benjamin Disraeli
Inspiration
"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."
- Dalai Lama
Positivity
"Humor and joy are skills, not the luck of the draw."
- C. W. Metcalf
Self-improvement
"The future depends on what you do today."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Future
"There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing."
- Aristotle
Courage
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
- Nikola Tesla
Philosophy
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse."
- Randy Pausch
Positivity
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Time Management
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
- Stephen R. Covey
Motivation
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Reflection
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
- Olin Miller
Productivity
"Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow—it’s found in the here and now. Today I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional landmines and choose joy and gratitude instead."
- RuPaul
Happiness
"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground."
- Author Unknown
Persistence
"The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends."
- Michael Scott
Connection to Earth
"When you focus on the good, the good gets better."
Positivity
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
Motivation
"Storms don’t last forever."
Hope
"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."
Integrity
"I am strong because I’ve been weak. I am fearless because I’ve been afraid."
- Unknown
Strength
"At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening."
Personal Growth
"Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else."
- Unknown
Persistence
"No rain, no flowers."
Growth
"Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win."
Positivity
"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome."
Motivation
"Life’s like trying to plug in a USB. It never goes right on the first try, or the second, or the third…"
Positivity
"Life is like a box of chocolates, but sometimes you keep getting the ones filled with toothpaste."
Positivity
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been in bed with a mosquito."
Empowerment
"Navigating life is like trying to fold a fitted sheet. No one really knows how, but we all pretend we do."
Positivity
"If life had background music, mine would be the sound of a trombone playing ‘womp womp’."
Positivity
"I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off."
Positivity
"I asked life for a sign. It gave me a stop sign. I’m not sure how to proceed."
Positivity