Quotes About Resilience

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.

The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.