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- "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." – Earl Nightingale
- "You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need framework and a dream." – Michael Dell
- "Your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt." – Jeremy Stoppelman
- "Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career." – Ryan Freitas
- "Fail often so you can succeed sooner." – Tom Kelley
- "Always deliver more than expected." – Larry Page
- "The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try." – Debbi Fields
- "You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end." – Jessica Herrin
- "The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." – Nolan Bushnell
- “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
- "If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it." – Elon Musk
- "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” – Mark Cuban
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- "Failure is not the outcome. Failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail." – Sara Blakely
- "The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work." – Oprah Winfrey
- "No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude and hardiness that matter more where you start." – Jack Ma
- "Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I’ve wanted; it starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it." – Belinda Johnson
- "Do it with passion, or not at all." – Rosa Nouchette Carey
- "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." – Thomas Edison
- “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway
- "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." – Steve Jobs
- "If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you’ve to think long-term." – Jeff Bezos
- "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
- "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." – Henry David Thoreau
- “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
- "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." – Abraham Lincoln
- "It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark." – Howard Ruff
- "A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there." – Unknown
- "Do it with passion, or not at all." – Rosa Nouchette Carey
- “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
- "I never dream of success. I worked for it." – Estee Lauder
- “The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” – Woodrow Wilson
- "The grass is greener where you water it." – Unknown
- “You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
- "Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn." – John Maxwell
- "If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal." – Unknown
- “It’s in crises that leaders, teams and organizations are tested. This is when the big questions get asked. Does a practiced disaster recovery plan exist? What about a resilience strategy to respond and bounce back? Are all the systems in place to support work after a disaster?” – Jonathan Reichental
- “Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future." – Larry Page
- “It takes humility to realize that we don’t know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don’t we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.” – Cher Wang
- "There’s an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, ‘It’s not the right time just yet.’ There’s no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business." – Kevin Plank
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
- “The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.” – Denise Morrison
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
- “Technologies are being stretched to their limits. Nontraditional approaches will enable the next rebound of innovation and efficiency.” – Daryl Plummer
- "It isn’t the things themselves that disturb people, but the judgments that they form about them." – Epictetus
- "How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" – Seneca
- “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 DeVrye
- "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." – Viktor Frankl
- "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." – Aristotle
- "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." – Plato
- "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." – Epictetus
- "Success depends on previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure." – Confucius
- “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
- "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." – Buddha
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “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
- "If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to." – Laozi
- "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult
- "If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces." – Shane Koyczan
- "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." – Ernest Hemingway
- "Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before." – Elizabeth Edwards
- "Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait." – Leigh Bardugo
- “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” – Angela Duckworth
- “Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” – Gever Tulley
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
- “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” – Gever Tulley
- “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
- “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
- “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
- “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.” – Margaret George
- “I was set free because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.” – Sharon Salzberg
- “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” – Wes Fessler
- “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
- “It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.” – Bob Richards
- “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
- “When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” – Jaeda Dewalt
- “As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.” – Angela Duckworth
- “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”– Stephen Covey
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “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
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown
- “Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal.” – Jonathan Mills
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance.” – Lee Ann Womack
- “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
- “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
- “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway
- “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.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts
- “Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” – Raymond McCauley
- “Life throws challenges but with patience and resilience, you can convert every challenge into a new opportunity to grow.” – Amit Ray
- “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.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “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
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.” – Jack Ma
- “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
- “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.” – H. Ross Perot
- “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell
- “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Everyone experiences tough times; it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.” – Lakshmi Mittal
- “The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.” – Michael Gerber
- “You can’t lose confidence in yourself, or you’ve lost already. When you get knocked down, you’ve got to keep getting back up.” – Tim Tebow
- “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering
- “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.” – Unknown
- “It’s during our very worst fall that we can either die or learn to fly.” – Sira Masetti
- “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.” – Gregory Boyle
- “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
- “Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.” – Julie Lythcott-Haim
- “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
- “It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.” – Mary Kay Ash
- “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
- “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
- “Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn’t go on, you did.” – Unknown
- “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Oliver Goldsmith
- "You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius
Resilience isn't just about getting through tough times; it's about using those experiences to your advantage. It's learning from every setback and using that knowledge to make better decisions in the future.
The challenges you face today will help you face tomorrow's challenges with greater confidence. This kind of resilience is what transforms good leaders into great ones.