Bouncing Back Quotes

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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

“The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.”
― Karen Salmansohn, Bounce Back!: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity

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

“Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints.”
― Sumner Davenport

“Shit happens everyday. How you deal with it makes all the difference.”
― Laarni Venus Marie Giango

“Humans are so strange in the ways that we are either recovering too quickly from something or holding on to pain forever. There seems to be no middle ground. We bounce back or we wallow. But remembering the hardest moments of grief or loss and letting them be present for you in the good moments is something I’ve found useful and grounding as I age. It feels like a way of remembering that balance does exist. This too. This grief. This joy. Together always intertwined.”
― Ada Limon

“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!

“Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That’s only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds – as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Today's struggle is tomorrow's strength, today's setback is tomorrow's comeback.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“So, what do I do?' she asked.
'You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you ... You try again. You fail better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet.”
― Rachel Barenbaum, A Bend in the Stars

“Life is tough, but you are tougher.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“There was no electricity yet. Now and then, the flame in the lantern would get unsteady due to the bluster, but it always bounced back with much more vigor. If the little flame could sustain itself, why had she lost her glow? Why had she surrendered herself completely to his whims and fancies? Where was the real herself?”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Casket of stories

“Broken things,
Often have a golden glow
When they find themselves all over again!”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Beneath the dead skin

“You have to be too broken to stand in public and brutally tell them to get up and fix themselves because you know you did!”
― Himmilicious

“Success and failure: just the universe's way of teaching you to bounce back, both essential in crafting the resilience needed for lasting confidence.”
― Felecia Etienne