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Resilience Quotes by Famous Authors

Go forward while you can but if your strength fails

1. “Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.”

Resilience, Acceptance, Life Path, Peace, Humility

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity

2. “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

John D. Rockefeller

Opportunity, Success, Resilience, Strategy, Growth

When fate hands us a lemon let’s try to make

3. “When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.”

Andrew Carnegie

Positivity, Optimism, Resilience, Adaptability, Wisdom

Trying to minimize weakness doesn’t produce strength

4. “Trying to minimize weakness doesn’t produce strength.”

Strength, Growth, Mindset, Improvement, Resilience

My mother taught me not to take any crap from

5. “My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.”

Resilience, Strength, Lessons, Determination, Values

The more popular a person thinks he is in the

6. “The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.”

Popularity, Ego, Hypocrisy, Resilience, Humility

Everyone would love to have a large and growing market

7. “Everyone would love to have a large and growing market, perfected technology, and infinite capital. Under those conditions, anyone can be an entrepreneur. The question is what you are willing to do and can you do when the conditions are far from perfect.”

Entrepreneurship, Challenges, Business, Success, Resilience

Every day I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets

8. “Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.”

Criticism, Social Media, Experience, Resilience, Mindset

I should never stand alone in this desert world but

9. “I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.”

Margaret Fuller

Faith, Hope, Resilience, Survival, Divine

The battle is in the mind

10. “The battle is in the mind.”

Mind, Struggle, Strength, Perception, Resilience

The toughest skill as a leader is to be calm

11. “The toughest skill as a leader is to be calm during the toughest moments.”

Leadership, Calm, Resilience, Skill, Strength

Everyone experiences pain But not everyone has to experience suffering

12. “Everyone experiences pain. But not everyone has to experience suffering.”

Pain, Suffering, Perspective, Resilience, Choice

If you are not disappointed in yourself it doesn’t matter

13. “If you are not disappointed in yourself, it doesn’t matter who else is disappointed in you. If you are disappointed in yourself, it doesn’t matter who believes in you.”

Self-worth, Disappointment, Belief, Resilience, Confidence

Others’ success will generate massive self-doubt every morning when you

14. “Others’ success will generate massive self-doubt every morning when you get up. Get up anyway.”

Self-doubt, Success, Resilience, Effort, Persistence

Whatever you are feeling today will fade away

15. “Whatever you are feeling today will fade away.”

Emotions, Time, Impermanence, Perspective, Resilience

We will always be defined by our ability to handle

16. “We will always be defined by our ability to handle uncertainty.”

Uncertainty, Resilience, Ability, Character, Strength

Two things that will keep you going forever: Hope and

17. “Two things that will keep you going forever: Hope and patience.”

Hope, Patience, Endurance, Resilience, Strength

Your circumstances are not the reason you cannot succeed They

18. “Your circumstances are not the reason you cannot succeed. They are the reality in which you must succeed.”

Circumstances, Success, Reality, Resilience, Effort

If you can't laugh at yourself you will cry when

19. “If you can't laugh at yourself, you will cry when others do so!”

Humor, Self-awareness, Resilience, Perspective, Humility

Courage is possibly the most important quality of all Courage

20. “Courage is possibly the most important quality of all. Courage not so much to win, but courage to be okay even if you don't win!”

Courage, Resilience, Acceptance, Strength, Mindset

Be curious Get rejected Learn from it

21. “Be curious. Get rejected. Learn from it.”

Curiosity, Rejection, Learning, Growth, Resilience

Courage hugs you in private

22. “Courage hugs you in private.”

Courage, Privacy, Strength, Resilience, Quiet

Ones who continue to grow in life are not the

23. “Ones who continue to grow in life are not the ones who make the best decisions. Instead, they are quick to change their decisions, once they stop growing.”

Growth, Decisions, Adaptability, Resilience, Progress

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology

24. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.”

Acceptance, Forgiveness, Peace, Closure, Resilience

It takes courage to choose a hard path It takes

25. “It takes courage to choose a hard path. It takes even more courage to change that path, if it doesn't work.”

Courage, Choice, Adaptability, Persistence, Resilience

The world is designed to benefit from your self doubt

26. “The world is designed to benefit from your self doubt and fear. So it does everything to make you feel that way all the time.”

Self-doubt, Fear, Society, Resilience, Awareness

We don't have to win everyday We just have to

27. “We don't have to win everyday. We just have to win once. But for that, we might have to lose everyday, until the day we win!”

Persistence, Victory, Failure, Effort, Resilience

What the world says will affect you if you somewhere

28. “What the world says will affect you, if you somewhere believe it to be true.”

Belief, Influence, Self-esteem, Perception, Resilience

No one sees how you overcame your habits and systems

29. “No one sees how you overcame your habits and systems despite having ‘failed’, because they focus on the end result, that you failed.”

Effort, Failure, Perception, Journey, Resilience

If you had to choose just one habit for the

30. “If you had to choose just one habit for the rest of your life, let it be of not complaining. And see how effortlessly you reach solutions.”

Habit, Positivity, Solutions, Mindset, Resilience

Failing is NOT a permanent condition Calling yourself a failure

31. “Failing is NOT a permanent condition. Calling yourself a failure is!”

Failure, Mindset, Resilience, Identity, Growth

Your kindness might cause you pain a sense of betrayal

32. “Your kindness might cause you pain, a sense of betrayal, heartburn. Be kind anyway.”

Kindness, Pain, Resilience, Betrayal, Character

Risk and failure is not absolute It is a state

33. “Risk and failure is not absolute. It is a state of mind.”

Risk, Failure, Mindset, Perception, Resilience

I know as long as I have hope I have

34. “I know as long as I have hope, I have a reason.”

Hope, Purpose, Resilience, Motivation, Belief

I was asked what I thought about the recession I

35. “I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.”

Recession, Attitude, Choice, Positivity, Resilience

Celebrate your successes Find some humor in your failures

36. “Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.”

Success, Failure, Celebration, Humor, Resilience

I had to pick myself up and get on with

37. “I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”

Resilience, Effort, Improvement, Persistence, Recovery

When all else fails put on a costume and sing

38. “When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.”

Humor, Failure, Resilience, Creativity, Lightness

I've never been one to dwell on reverses

39. “I've never been one to dwell on reverses.”

Resilience, Setbacks, Focus, Forward, Strength

You can make a positive out of the most negative

40. “You can make a positive out of the most negative if you work at it hard enough.”

Positivity, Effort, Negativity, Resilience, Optimism

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and

41. “We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.”

Grandparents, Values, Wisdom, Experience, Resilience

And so I say to you and to others around

42. “And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.”

Patriotism, Strength, Wisdom, America, Resilience

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that

43. “There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.”

Change, Adaptation, Psychology, Stress, Resilience

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by focus

44. “Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.”

Perseverance, Persistence, Resilience, Success, Strategy

Giving up is the greatest failure

45. “Giving up is the greatest failure.”

Perseverance, Failure, Determination, Resilience, Success

Today is cruel Tomorrow is crueller And the day after

46. “Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.”

Struggle, Perseverance, Optimism, Future, Resilience

We will make it because we are young and we

47. “We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.”

Perseverance, Determination, Youth, Resilience, Ambition

There's an examination for young people to go to university

48. “There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.”

Failure, Perseverance, Success, Resilience, Motivation

Of course you’re not happy when people say ‘no’ Have

49. “Of course, you’re not happy when people say ‘no.’ Have a good sleep, wake up, and try again.”

Perseverance, Resilience, Success, Mindset, Determination

Be the last man standing

50. “Be the last man standing.”

Perseverance, Resilience, Success, Determination, Entrepreneurship