Theme
Resilience
Enduring hardship, bouncing back, and refusing to stay down.
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Verified quotes about resilience
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“A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity”
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation”
“Do not go gentle into that good night”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed”
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy”
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”
“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”
“No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls”
“Patience is a conquering virtue”
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind”
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles overcome”
“The best way out is always through”
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”
“The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way”
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”
“These are the times that try men's souls”
“What does not kill me makes me stronger”
“A champion is someone who gets up when they can't”
“All things are difficult before they are easy”
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back”
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude”
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on”
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, and sacrifice”
“Victory belongs to the most persevering”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
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Don’t get caught out
Commonly shared about resilience — but misattributed
Popular resilience lines that get pinned on the wrong name. If you use one, credit it correctly.
“A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered”
ReallyClara Bow · not Marilyn Monroe
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”
ReallyHorace
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter”
ReallyUnknown (an anonymous quip by 1968) · not Muhammad Ali
“As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!”
ReallyMargaret Mitchell
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
ReallyJohn Watson (“Ian Maclaren”) · not Plato
“Blood, sweat and tears”
ReallyWinston Churchill
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”
ReallySquire Bill Widener
“Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are”
ReallySquire Bill Widener · not Theodore Roosevelt
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”
ReallyHerbert Kretzmer
“Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end”
ReallyFernando Sabino (crediting his father, Domingos Sabino) · not Paulo Coelho
“Failure is not an option”
ReallyWilliam Broyles Jr. & Al Reinert · not Gene Kranz
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
ReallyNicholas Klein · not Mahatma Gandhi
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”
ReallyChristopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni · not C.S. Lewis
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work”
ReallyThomas Edison · not Thomas Edison
“I love those who can smile in trouble”
ReallyThomas Paine
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
ReallyUnknown / anonymous origin · not Winston Churchill
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
ReallyJohn Archibald Wheeler
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer”
ReallyAlbert Camus