27 Quotes That Will Remind You To Stand Back Up After Life Knocks You Down

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf, positivepsychologyprogram.com

“They tried to bury me, but didn't know that I'm a seed.”

— Mexican Proverb, robinsharma.com

“Cleaning the wound is often more painful than the cut itself.”

— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

— Alain de Botton, quotefancy.com

“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 mad…”

— Steve Goodlier, positivepsychologyprogram.com

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

— Robert Jordan, amazon.com

“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, npr.org

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com

“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience...”

— Gary Neville, thesackrace.com

“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.”

— Sheryl Swoopes, amazon.com

“You have to be okay with wins and losses.”

— Josh Brolin, m.imdb.com

“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, nydailynews.com

“The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.com

“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”

— Boris Johnson, telegraph.co.uk

“Shit happens everyday. To everyone. The difference is in how people deal with it.”

— Laarni Venus Marie Giango, avidquotes.com

“The world isn’t perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn’t apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes l…”

— Chloe Neill, amazon.com

“The hardest thing about 'everything happens for a reason' is waiting for that reason to show up.”

— Karen Salmansohn, amazon.com

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

— Ernest Hemingway, thecreativeham.com

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com

“Out of massive suffering emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran, purposefairy.com

“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”

— Elizabeth Edwards, abcnews.go.com

“When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

— Ellen Degeneres, make-me-successful.com

“Everything is hard before it is easy.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, bouncebackhigher.com

“It's always darkest before the dawn.”

— Thomas Fuller, amazon.com

“Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.”

— Herbert Gasser, amazon.com

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, goethesociety.org