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1. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
2. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult
3. “The oak fought the wind and was broken; the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
4. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” – Angela Duckworth
5. “If your , make art with the pieces.” – Shane Koyczan
6. “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
7. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” – Greg Kincaid
8. “Hold yourself for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself, and be lenient to everybody else.” – Henry Ward Beecher
9. “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
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10. “Resiliency is something you do, more than something you have. You become highly resilient by continuously learning your best way of being yourself in your circumstance.” – Al Siebert
11. “Resilience has been described as the capacity for positive outcomes despite challenging or threatening circumstances.” – Byron Egeland
12. “Resilience is overcoming adversity, whilst also potentially changing, or even dramatically transforming aspects of that adversity.” – Angie Hart
13. “Resilience represents a constellation of characteristics that protect individuals from the potential negative effect of stressors.” – Ivan Robertson
14. “Resiliency is the ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity.” – Nan Henderson
15. “Definitions have evolved over time, but fundamentally, resilience is understood as referring to positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health, despite experiencing adversity.” – Hellen Herman
16. “Resilience or hardiness is the ability to adapt to new circumstances when life presents the unpredictable.” – Salvatore R. Maddi
17. “It is possible to define the property of resilience as a complex repertoire of behavioral tendencies that may be evoked or activated by environmental demands.” – Christine Agaibi and John Wilson
18. “The behavioral component of resilience enables people to remain effective at home and work, able to focus on relevant tasks and goals and carry them out.” – Ivan Robertson and Cary Cooper
19. “When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
20. “My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” – Mizuta Masahide
21. “Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day.” – Will Durant
22. “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
23. “Resilience is our ability to bounce back from and unforeseen difficulties, providing mental protection from emotional and mental disorders.” – Michael Rutter
24. “Resilience can be defined as reduced vulnerability to environmental risk experiences, the overcoming of stress or adversity, or a relatively good outcome despite risk experiences.” – Michael Rutter
25. “I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.” –
26. “Only imagination may arouse a spark of expectation, stir up resilience, and create an equitable prospect.” – Erik Pavernegie
27. “It’s crazy how similar we are. Here’s both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.” – Jenny Han
28. “Resilience is an important key. Protect the key to your peaceful heart.” – Angelica Hopes
29. “In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better. Those words are my North Star.” – Caryn Sullivan
30. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” – Hans Selye
31. “Stress will break people altogether if they are, in the beginning, too weak to stand distress; or else, if they are already strong enough to take the stress in the first place, that same stress, if they come through it, will strengthen them, temper them, and make them stronger.” – Abraham Maslow
32. “Your mind and attitudes create either barriers or bridges to good outcomes.” – Al Siebert
33. “Negative self-talk will weaken your self-concept and can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. People who think, ‘I’m a loser’ or ‘I’m a failure as a manager’ tend to act in a way that confirms those beliefs. People who think, ‘I’m adaptable’ or ‘I’m a good friend’ will tend to act in ways to confirm those beliefs.” – Al Siebert
34. “The mind is its own place and can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven.” – John Milton
35. “Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” – Gever Tulley
36. “Grief and resilience live together.” –
37. “The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” –
38. “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mark Holloway
39. “What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.” – Roy T. Bennett
40. “Only a timely adjustment with our mental compass can shore up confidence, resilience, and reliance.” – Erik Pavernegie
41. “We better learn to adopt the virtue of endurance, as life consists of both passion and patience.” – Erik Pavernegie
42. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen
43. “Everyone has the ability to increase resilience to stress. It requires hard work and dedication, but over time, you can equip yourself to handle whatever life throws your way without adverse effects on your health. Training your brain to manage stress won’t just affect the quality of your life, but perhaps even the length of it.” – Amy Morin
44. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
45. “The most resilient people are like playful, curious children.” – Al Siebert
46. “Cracked up by life with a laugh that’s known bitter but, past it, got better.” – Jayne Relaford Brown
47. “Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” – Hugh Sidey
48. “Taking time to laugh, appreciate pleasant moments, and smell the roses daily affects your brain and nervous system in ways that enhance your problem-solving skills, and this, in turn, increases your resiliency.” – Al Siebert
49. “Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. , success comes too.” – Jimmy Buffett
50. “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.” – Henry Ward Beecher
51. “My life has been one great big joke—a dance that’s walked, a song that’s spoke. I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.” –
52. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, , and hard work.” – Colin Powell
53. “I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t fail a lot. The good, the bad—it’s all part of the success equation.” – Mark Cuban
54. “Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” –
55. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
56. “It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.” – Bob Richards
57. “As much as talent counts, counts twice.” – Angela Duckworth
58. “Resilience is an inference based on evidence that some individuals have a better outcome than others who have experienced a comparable level of adversity.” – Michael Rutter
59. “Resilience results from having the encounter at a time, and in a way, that the body can cope successfully with the noxious challenge to its system.” – Michael Rutter
60. “I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.” – Erin Van Vuren
61. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
62. “The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still going to be a rat.” – Lily Tomlin
63. “Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things—of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.” – Sheri L. Dew
64. “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
65. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
66. “She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards
67. “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
68. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
69. “Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” – Wes Fessler
70. “If we feel in headlights, let us tread lightly, back up for some time, and rebound later while building on our desire to empower our backbone and guts, restore our identity and kindle our fury of living.” – Erik Pavernegie
71. “Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down, but who picks us up.” – Kate DiCamillo
72. “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and putting one’s thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.” – Goethe
73. “The key to making your life better is to stop blaming others for triggering reactions in you that you don’t like. The problem is not what others do; it is your reaction to what they do.” – Al Siebert
74. “‘A Child Called It’ was a story about resilience. It was never about boo-hoo-hoo. It was about a kid that didn’t quit.” – Dave Pelzer
75. “A few people are born resilient. The rest of us need to work consciously at developing our abilities.” – Al Siebert
76. “Resilient children tend to have who are concerned with their children’s education, who participate in that education, who direct their children’s everyday tasks, and who are aware of their children’s interests and goals.” – Linda F. Winfield
77. “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear.” –
78. “Any action is better than no action at all.” – Norman Vincent Peale
79. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” –
80. “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” –
81. “I tried and failed. I tried again, and again, and succeeded.” – Gail Borden
82. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Eric Greitens
83. “Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal.” – Jonathan Mills
84. “To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running.” – Richard Branson
85. “Success and failure come and go, but don’t let them define you. It’s who you are that matters.” – Kamal Ravikant
86. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
87. “I didn’t give up. I am not a victim, and that is my proudest accomplishment.” – Suzanne Somers
88. “If I am not for me, who will be? If I am only for me, what is the point?” – Hillel
89. “No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.” – Joanie Connell
90. “Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.” – John C. Maxwell
91. “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” – Jamais Cascio
92. “The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.” – Joshua Waitzkin
93. “In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.” – Robert Collier
94. “Remember, an arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards; so when you feel like life is dragging you down with difficulties, it simply means that it’s going to launch you to something great. So just focus and keep aiming.” – Anonymous
95. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
96. “‘You must bear losses like a soldier,’ the voice told me. Bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seemed lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.” – Margaret George
97. “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
98. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” –
99. “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 DeVyre
100. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” –
101. “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
102. “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” – Emil Dorian
103. “To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.” – Hannah Gadsby
104. “Cleaning the wound is often more painful than the cut itself.” – Brandon Sanderson
105. “There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.” – Raymond E. Feist
106. “Strong people don’t put others down. They lift them up.” – Michael P. Watson
107. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is a strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
108. “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot.” –
109. “Experience life in all possible ways—good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.” –
110. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
111. “A good half of the art of living is resilience.” – Alain de Botton
112. “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
113. “When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” – Jaeda Dewalt
114. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” – Steven Covey
115. “There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.” – Sophie Kinsella
116. “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
117. “There comes a time in your life when you from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.” – José N. Harris
118. “Feeling confronted with the absurdity of life may sometimes nurture a personal satisfaction for those who like to set a paramount task or to create a compassionate mission. In so doing, the seal of absurdity becomes less unbearable, while it confers them a ‘Sisyphus’ status that transmutes them into heroes of human resilience.” – Erik Pavernegie
119. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley
120. “There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.” – Susan C. Young
121. “The last of human freedoms is one’s ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.” –
122. “I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.” – Oprah Winfrey
123. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
124. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” –
125. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” –
126. “Resilience is very different from being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” – Yasmin Mogahed
127. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” –
128. “If you fail the first time, then you’ll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there’s no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
129. “To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity.” – Hannah Gadsby
130. “If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.” – Suzy Kassem
131. “To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” – E. E. cummings
132. “I am down, and that is okay. I may be down for a while, but I will rise again. And when I rise, I will rise higher than I’ve gone before, I will be stronger than I’ve been before. I will thrive.” – Brian Vaszily
133. “The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up.” – Brene Brown
134. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve
135. “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.” – Sharon Salzberg
136. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your and move on.” – Les Brown
137. “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
138. “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
139. “I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance.” – Lee Ann Womack
140. “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 of this, absolutely anything in the world is possible.” – Mike Norton
141. “We are what we are—a handful of dust, and although life remains a temporal enterprise, we recognize we have a mission. Through resilience and , we can take a walk on the path of thought and wonder and brighten up the hazy remains of the day.” – Erik Pavernegie
142. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” –
143. “Only by converting fear into a challenge, we can grit our teeth, strengthen resilience, and brighten up the dimness in our minds.” – Erik Pavernegie
144. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.” – Gregory Boyle
145. “There are two ways of exerting one’s strength—one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” – Booker T. Washington
146. “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
147. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
148. “Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I’m pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.” – Brooke Shields
149. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
150. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
151. “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
152. “We may feel the world is slipping out of our hands and recognize that the core of our conceived blueprint is escaping us. Let us challenge, then, a point of resilience and get out of the weeds, clear our mind and figure out who is who in our lives, and gauge what is valuable in our mind.” – Erik Pavernegie
153. “The human spirit is tremendously resilient. It can withstand the most horrific of circumstances, whether of human or divine creation. It is not these larger-than-life situations that beat us. It’s the little things.” – Sheila Williams
154. “Blaming others for how bad things are for you, keeps you in a non-resilient victim state in which you do not take resiliency actions.” – Al Siebert
155. “Adversity reveals genius.” – Horace
156. “Adversity introduces us to ourselves.” – W. Mitchell
157. “A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a person perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb
158. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
159. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” –
160. “The strongest oak of the is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.” – Napoleon Hill
161. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic somewhere behind the morning.” – B. Priestley
162. “When you are hit with life-disrupting events, you will never be the same again. You either cope or you crumble; you become better or bitter; you emerge stronger or weaker.” – Al Siebert
163. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
164. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” –
165. “Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.” – Toller Cranston
166. “In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.” – Albert Bandura
167. “Our resilience increases as we recognize the magnitude of what we have already accomplished.” – Patricia O’Gorman
168. “Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” – Oliver Goldsmith
169. “It’s during our very worst fall that we can either die or learn to fly.” – Sira Masetti
170. “During difficult times, an important resiliency step is being able to express your feelings in healthy ways. You can’t make feelings go away, but you can move through them.” – Al Siebert
171. “Survivors are not afraid to have feelings. You must be in touch with your body and its messages.” – Bernie Siegel
172. “Resilient survivors handle their feelings well when hit with unexpected difficulties no matter how unfair. When hurt and distressed, they expect to eventually recover and find a way to have things turn out well.” – Al Siebert
173. “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” –
174. “The better you become at being able to recognize, verbalize, and manage your feelings, the less you will be vulnerable to losing emotional control or developing cardiovascular illnesses.” – Al Siebert
175. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem
176. “Anyone who tries to act as though he or she never feels upset or distressed is more fragile than people who admit they need counseling.” – Al Siebert
177. “Cry if you want to, I won’t tell you not to. I won’t try to cheer you on. I’ll just be here if you want me to be.” – Cole Porter
178. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often, we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
179. “When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.” – Tarthang Tulku
180. “Empathy for other people’s feelings requires a counter-balancing quality of toughness to not be controlled by their pain.” – Al Siebert
181. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
182. “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Anonymous
183. “Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” – Margaret Mead
184. “It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.” – Maureen Forrester
185. “Find a survivor who can be a role model for you. For me it is Lassie. Whenever I run into difficulties I ask myself, ‘What would Lassie do now?’” – Bernie Siegel
186. “You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces—my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope.” – Elizabeth Edwards
187. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –
188. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.” – Richard Bach
189. “Nourishing relationships is the single most universally agreed-upon feature of the good life.” – Daniel Goleman
190. “Our is the help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” –
191. “I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other.” – Sheryl Sandberg
192. “The trauma you’ve experienced and survived is the most powerful part of your life experience. Honor and celebrate your resiliency.” – Leonie H. Mattison
193. “You’re going to face adversity. It’s not if it’s when.” – Andre Ward
194. “It’s okay to feel down or think pessimistically sometimes, but choosing to respond with optimism, resilience, and gratitude will benefit you far more in the long run.” – Abhishek Ratna
195. “Pending time alone in your own company reinforces your self worth and is often the number one way to replenish your resilience reserves.” – Sam Owen
196. “I spent my young adult years postponing many of the small things that I knew would make me happy. I was fortunate enough to realize that I would never have the time unless I made the time. And then the rest of my life began.” – Dr. Chris Peterson
197. “Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” –
198. “An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.” – Albert Schweitzer
199. “Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure that tests whether they have the resilience to come back and fight smarter and with more determination.” – Ray Dalio
200. “Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.” – Barbara Sher
201. “It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” – Carlton Fisk
202. “My childhood gave me resilience and there’s little that can surprise me in life.” – Natalia Vodianova
203. “My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.” – Paula McLain
204. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran
205. “Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” –
206. “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” – E.B. White
207. “We all suffer, and we all triumph, and we all get to choose how we hold both.” – Demi Moore
208. “A comeback is a setback that did its homework, learned the lesson, and then moved forward.” – Eleonor Brownn
209. “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.” – , Jr.
210. “We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” – Mark Nepo
211. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
212. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
213. “It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous—even death is terrible only if we fear it.” –
214. “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” – Isabel Allende
215. “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” –
216. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.” – Thomas A. Edison
217. “There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in contrast.” –
218. “We will either find a way, or make one.” – Anibal Barca
219. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall
220. “Stand firm, and you will win life.” – Luke 21:19
221. “I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.” – Philippians 4:13
222. “Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.” – James 1:12
223. “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” – Romans 8:18
224. “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.” – 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
225. “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” – Romans 8:37
226. “You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.” – 2 Chronicles 20:17
227. “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10
228. “The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.” – Job 17:19
229. “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.” – Corinthians