Resilience Quotes

"Because I have heard so many no from people, that I almost forgot I had ever been a star."

"I've had doors slammed in my face, I've been shouted at in my face in meetings when I've stood up for myself."

"Anyone who's been an usher knows it's a training in resilience. But you get such a film education. And the popcorn's free."

"Trolling never bothers me. There are so many times when I don't even pay attention to it."

“There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.”

"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again."

William Cullen Bryant

"Courage in defeat and destruction, never wavering – this is the quality of an army of long standing."

Thiruvalluvar

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

Viktor Frankl

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

"Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief."

Robert Fulghum

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Viktor E. Frankl

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

Louisa May Alcott

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

Frida Kahlo

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened."

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

Serena Williams

"Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an E.C.G. means we are not alive."

Ratan Tata

"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us."

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

David Brinkley

"Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument."

Ratan Tata

"Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

Jodi Picoult