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

It's your reaction to adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop. 
Katie Mather
September 6, 2016
“The hardest thing about 'everything happens for a reason' is waiting for that reason to show up.”
— Karen Salmansohn, The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses
Tagged: Bounce Back, rebound, Recovery, Everything Happens For A Reason
“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 life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it’s about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn’t perfection. The point is doing it anyway.”
— Chloe Neill, Biting Cold
Tagged: Bounce Back, Life Isn't Perfect, Acceptance, Life
“Shit happens everyday. To everyone. The difference is in how people deal with it.”
— Laarni Venus Marie Giango, Avid Quotes
Tagged: Bounce Back, Shit Happens, Deal With It
“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”
— Boris Johnson, Boris Johnson's top 50 quotes
Tagged: Bounce Back, Disasters, opportunities
“The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!
Tagged: Bounce Back, Great Hope, Difficulty
“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, How to be an entrepreneur: Qualities you can learn to develop the next big thing
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, skills, coping, Failure, Positivity, Focus
“You have to be okay with wins and losses.”
— Josh Brolin, Josh Brolin Quotes
Tagged: Bounce Back, Wins, Losses, Moving On
“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.”
— Sheryl Swoopes, Basketball Blood: Becoming More by Being Your Best
Tagged: Bounce Back, Life, Come Back
“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, Gary Neville Profile
Tagged: Bounce Back, Miserable, Mental Resilience, strength, Mental Strength, Experiences
“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Life, Ruining Your Life
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free: Anniversary Edition
Tagged: Bounce Back, Life, Life Isn't Easy, forgiveness, strength, Resilience
“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, Elizabeth Edwards: Resilience Remembered
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Acceptance, Reality, Life, Goodness, Fight, Loss
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5)
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, broken, Life, survive
“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 Goodlier, How To Inspire Resilience With Words
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Scared, wounds, Damage, Pain, hurt
“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
— Alain de Botton, Alain de Botton Quote: “A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Living, Art Of Living
“Cleaning the wound is often more painful
than the cut itself.”
— Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self (Mistborn)
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Pain, wounds, Life
“They tried to bury me, but didn't know that I'm a seed.”
— Mexican Proverb, Great Quotes for Hard Times
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Life
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf, How To Inspire Resilience With Words
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Adversity, Life, Life's Story
“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, 20 Quotes About Passion That Will Give You Chills
Tagged: Bounce Back, Courage, beauty, risks, Sacrifice, Virtues, vulnerability, Life
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”
— J.K. Rowling, The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
Tagged: Bounce Back, Failure, foundation, Rock Bottom, Rebuild, Life
“Out of massive suffering emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Khalil Gibran, 25 Life Changing Lessons to Learn from Khalil Gibran
Tagged: Bounce Back, Suffering, Soul, strength, character, Scars, Life
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
— Elizabeth Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards: What Will Be Her Greatest Legacy?
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Storm, Life, struggles, strength
“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, Top 7 Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, Failures, Success, Life
“Everything is hard before it is easy.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Inspirational Success Quotes - Colleen Kettenhofen Motivational Speaker
Tagged: Bounce Back, Life, Life Is Tough, Life Isn't Easy, Motivational
“It's always darkest before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof: With the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon
Tagged: Bounce Back, Life
“Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.”
— Herbert Gasser, The Action Planner
Tagged: Bounce Back, Distress, Overcoming Adversity, Take Action
“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, The Goethe Society of North America
Tagged: Bounce Back, Fate, Blossoming, Life, Resilience, Coming Back From Failure