Resilience Motivational Quotes

"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."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

"None but ourselves can free our minds."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Dedication makes dreams come true."

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

"You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you."

"Without hustle, your talent will only get you so far."

"Hustle is the most important word – EVER."

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

"You never lose in business, either you win or you learn."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Failure teaches us the most valuable lessons."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work."

"There’s no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move you in another direction."

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s**t out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse."

"Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth."

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral. Pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

"Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone’s light when they are hopeless."

"You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed – you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that."

"Today, do what others won't so tomorrow you can accomplish what others can't."

"Set specific, challenging goals. Keep pushing even when progress feels slow. Hunger for more fuels long-term success."

"You have to believe in yourself and your abilities. That's the only way to achieve greatness."

"Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable."

"I always try to improve and score more goals. I want to be the best."

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this."

"The only person who can really motivate you is you."

"You have to fight because you can’t count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it."

"My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief."

"Embrace adversity and use it as fuel to drive your determination."

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

"Winning takes care of everything."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

"With God all things are possible."

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude."

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"Every risk is worth taking as long as it’s for a good cause and contributes to a good life."

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success."

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

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

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"Failure is not the outcome. Failure is not trying."

"If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."

"I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart. I am talented. I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass."

"Nothing is given. Everything is earned."

"Confidence comes from effort, not luck. Work hard enough to remove doubt."

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

"If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do."

"The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. It's that simple."

"There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed."

"You have to be fearless and take risks to achieve greatness."

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it."

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

"If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?"

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."

"If you’re good enough, no one is stopping you."

"Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming an overnight success."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

"I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried. Because even a failed entrepreneur has the skill set to make it on their own."

"Limits exist in the mind more than reality. Determination makes dreams achievable."

"Talent without working hard is nothing."

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

"I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."

"It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once."

"Stop whining, start hustling."

"There are no shortcuts-everything is reps, reps, reps."

"Whatever your dream is, every single day you will be faced with challenges, but you have to keep moving forward."

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down."

"I want to say to all the young women out there: There will be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame, but if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going you’ll look around and you’ll know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

"You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new."

"Talent is useless without effort. Daily discipline creates greatness. Champions are built, not born."

"If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of."

"The day you think there is no improvement to be made is a sad one for any player."

"Believe in who you are and what you can accomplish."

"Believe in yourself and your abilities, even when others doubt you."

"Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you."

"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure."

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way."

"Fall down seven times; get up eight."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

"I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

"Fail big! Today’s the beginning of the rest of your life."

"Endure, my heart, you have endured worse than this."

"You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"Everything negative-pressure, challenges-is all an opportunity for me to rise."

"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."

"I don’t like to lose - at anything - yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks."

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

"Courage isn't charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think."

"Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself."

"No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

"Once you choose hope, anythings possible."

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

"The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst."

"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears."

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day."

"All defeats are temporary. There is no one person with a permanent black cloud following them."

"Don’t give up on your dreams just because they’re not happening right now."

"The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you."

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough. ... And you will tell them yes."

"We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give."

"A masterpiece isn’t built overnight. Success comes to those who stay consistent."

"In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision."

"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that."

"Sometimes you have to be your own hero and save your own little heart."

"If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death."

"Success is the result of hard work, busting your ass every day for years on end without cutting corners or taking shortcuts."

"Real champions fight through adversity."

"Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence."

"I smile at obstacles."

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change."

"Every no gets me closer to a yes."

"Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term so you can get paid in the long term."

"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."

"Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve."

"You will not always be strong, but you can always be brave."

"Failure isn’t the enemy. Giving up is. Mistakes teach. Setbacks sharpen skills."

"Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes."

"The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning."

"Stay humble, no matter how much success you achieve."

"Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be a struggle in your life."

"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes."

"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."

"If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying."

"Things don’t correct themselves, you’ve got to go out there and work hard to correct them."

"The same thing that’s true in gymnastics is also true in life: You can’t go back. The best you can do is forgive yourself, take a deep breath, and get to work on the next challenge."

"It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day."

"You have to build calluses on your brain just like you build calluses on your hands."

"Sometimes, you have to make your own way when no one else believes in you."

"Believe in your dreams, work hard, and never give up; miracles can happen."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you-what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind-you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy."

"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."

"Appreciate hard work and the process of hard work. Because after that’s over and you get the rewards of success, you look back on these moments and you respect those moments the best."

"Failure is an event, not a person."

"I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me."

"Your focus on hating yesterday is killing your opportunity to love tomorrow."

"Most wars are won or lost in our own heads."

"Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you're driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed."

"Stay hard… or stay exactly where you are!"

"Suffering is the price of growth."

"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from; you can make it."

"You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem."

"Every week is different for me, so I understand that I have to turn challenges into opportunities, demonstrating that persistence and courage pay off."

"You should always stand up for that which you feel strongly about, even if that means you have to let go of some people in your life."

"The more you experience the challenge of failure, the stronger and wiser you become."

"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting."

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

"Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance and beautiful silence."

"You can’t hurt me! But you can keep trying if you want."

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

"No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you."

"Most of this generation quits the second they get talked to. You did this wrong. You did that wrong. Or they get yelled at. It's so easy to be great nowadays because everyone else is weak."

"People say I’m crazy, but what they don’t understand is that I love the misery."

"Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright."

"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work."

"Whatever you fear most has no power-it is your fear that has the power."

"Don’t let fear be a roadblock."

"A stumble may prevent a fall."

"Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

"Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

"Everyone fails sometimes and life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim."

"You mean to tell me you had a bad day? Some people had a bad life. Get over it!"

"The world is soft. You’re soft. Toughen up!"

"Your mind is your worst enemy, but I promise you I’m a close second!"

"Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living."

"I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life."

"This, too, will pass."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. So, keep moving, keep growing, keep learning!"

"Don’t let them change you or even rearrange you."

"I'm not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that."

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

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

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

"Don't be afraid to start over. It's a chance to build something better this time."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

"You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates."

"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

"I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out."

"Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later."

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow'."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up."

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

"If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting."

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

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

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"Wisdom comes through suffering."

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you."

"When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off."

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

"Difficult doesn't mean impossible. It simply means you have to work harder."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do."

"One fails forward toward success."

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"The best teacher is experience learned from failures."

"Success is what happens after you have survived all your mistakes."

"It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow."

"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."