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May 2018

101 Growth Mindset Quotes To Inspire You To Take Action

Some of these 101 growth mindset quotes have changed the world and they may even change your thinking as well.

Mindset is the pivotal and crucial step when it comes to achieving success. Click To Tweet

We all know we need to be persistent and to always keep moving forward.

We all know we need to be positive and hold on to that positivity even when things get difficult and even impossible.

I believe these growth mindset quotes will help you inspire to take action

#1-10 | Inspiring quotes to reflect growth mindset

#1 – An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. growth mindset quotes

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote

#2 – When you think positive, good things happen. – Matt Kemp

 Matt Kemp Growth Mindset quotes

Matt Kemp Quote

#2 – My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.  Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus Growth Mindset quotes

Muhammad Yunus Quote

#3 – Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

William James Growth Mindset quotes

William James Quote

#4 – I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionized my mindset. Transformed my heart set, and generally influenced my life exponentially.             Robin S. Sharma

Robin S. Sharma Growth Mindset quotes

Robin S. Sharma Quote

#5 – If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Growth Mindset quotes

Dale Carnegie Quote

#6 – To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.          Summer Sanders

Summer Sanders Growth Mindset quotes

Summer Sanders Quote

#8 – Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else. Morrie Schwarts

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Morrie Schwarts Quote

#9 – Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don;t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don;t let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. – Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Growth Mindset quotes

Steve Jobs Quote

#10 – Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey Quote

#11-20 | Motivational quotes to encourage growth mindset

#11 – God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire

Voltaire Growth Mindset quotes

Voltaire Quote

#12 – Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself. – Kiesza

 Kiesza Growth Mindset quotes

Kiesza Quote

#13 – My mindset is the same every game.- Kawhi Leonard

Kawhi Leonard Growth Mindset quotes

Kawhi Leonard Quote

#14 – Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies. – Brad Thor

Brad Thor Growth Mindset quotes

Brad Thor

#15 – Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.  Denis Waitley

Denis Waitley Growth Mindset quotes

Denis Waitley Quote

#16 – If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. – Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg Growth Mindset quotes

Sharon Salzberg Quote

#17 – Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.   Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury Growth Mindset quotes

Ray Bradbury Quote

#18 – Learn to enjoy every minute if your life. Be happy now. Don;t wait for something outside if yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nigthingale

Earl Nigthingale Growth Mindset quotes

Earl Nigthingale Quote

#19 – Now that I’m doing all these big competitions, I’ve learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that’s where the maturity comes in.                 Laurie Hernandez

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Laurie Hernandez Quote

#20 – Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?         Bob Marley

Bob Marley Growth Mindset quotes

Bob Marley Quote

#21-30 | Growth mindset quotes to live by

       #21 – Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.                     J. B. Bickerstaff

J. B. Bickerstaff Growth Mindset quotes

J. B. Bickerstaff Quote

#22 – People talk abut perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that. – Eddie Huang

Eddie Huang Growth Mindset quotes

Eddie Huang Quote

#23 – Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.      Helen Fisher

Helen Fisher Growth Mindset quotes

Helen Fisher Quote

#24 – We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think, Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap. – Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins Growth Mindset quotes

Anthony Hopkins Quote

#25 – I changed my mindset and figured, why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally? – Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley Growth Mindset quotes

Brad Paisley Quote

#26- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.                                  Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekananda Quote

#27 – We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Growth Mindset quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote

#28 – I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you that you can’t do it, that you don;t have what it takes, but if it is in your heart and you feel it, there is nothing that will stop you. It is like the sun – you can’t block it; it will shine regardless, if that is what you want. – Thalia

Thalia Growth Mindset quotes

Thalia Quote

#29 – We male a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.      Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Growth Mindset quotes

Winston Churchill Quote

#30 – I wake up every day and i think, I’m breathing! It’s a good day.   –   Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler Growth Mindset quotes

Eve Ensler Quote

#31-40 | Growth mindset quotes from everyday life

#31 – In order to understand the mindset of a boxer; I needed to become a boxer myself. – Edgar Ramirez

Edgar Ramirez Growth Mindset quotes

Edgar Ramirez Quote

#32 – Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E. Faust

James E. Faust Growth Mindset quotes

James E. Faust Quote

#33 – Be more concerned with your character that your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – John Wooden

John Wooden Growth Mindset quotes

John Wooden Quote

#34 – Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit. – Sarah Parish

Sarah Parish Growth Mindset quotes

Sarah Parish Quote

#35 – The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business. – Yves Behar

Yves Behar Growth Mindset quotes

Yves Behar Quote

#36 – I learned that we do anything, but we can’t do everything…. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. – Dan Millman

Dan Millman Growth Mindset quotes

Dan Millman Quote

#37 – Success is really about your mindset. – F. Gary Gray

F. Gary Gray Growth Mindset quotes

F. Gary Gray Quote

#38 – There is no passion to be found playing small – In settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela Growth Mindset quotes

Nelson Mandela Quote

#39 – Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference. – Robert Griffin III

Robert Griffin III Growth Mindset quotes

Robert Griffin III Quote

#40 – One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.            Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Growth Mindset quotes

Dale Carnegie Quote

#41-50 | Growth mindset quotes about gratitude

#41 – Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.  Travis Barker

Travis Barker Growth Mindset quotes

Travis Barker Quote

#42 – When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think. – Beyonce Knowles

Beyonce Knowles Growth Mindset quotes

Beyonce Knowles Quote

#43 – Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means taht you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living the dream. – Marlon Wayans

Marlon Wayans Growth Mindset quotes

Marlon Wayans Quote

#44 – Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. – Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill Growth Mindset quotes

Napoleon Hill Quote

#45 – Do the on thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those eho never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. – Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey  Growth Mindset quote

Oprah Winfrey Quote#

#46 – Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn Growth Mindset quotes

Jim Rohn Quote

#47 – I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we’ll be good. – Jennette McCurdy

Jennette McCurdy Growth Mindset quotes

Jennette McCurdy

#48 – I do have that mindset – That most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.                Ben Folds

 Ben Folds Growth Mindset quotes

Ben Folds Quote

#49 – I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or wok the count. – Andrew Benintendi

Andrew Benintendi Growth Mindset quotes

Andrew Benintendi Quote

#50 – The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life. – Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer Growth Mindset quotes

Wayne Dyer Quote

#51-60 | Growth mindset quotes from mindful people

#51 – I think of myself not as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser. – Sarah Brightman

 Sarah Brightman Growth Mindset quotes

Sarah Brightman Quote

#52 – The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Growth Mindset quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

#53 – You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch… passing and what not, but when you get out there on the field. I’ts just a mindset you need to go into the game with. – Freddy Adu

Freddy Adu Growth Mindset quotes

Freddy Adu Quote

#54 – My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed. when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of personality is stuck in those five years, and I don’t know if that’s ever gonna change.                    Dennis Crowley

Dennis Crowley  Growth Mindset quotes

Dennis Crowley Quote

#55 – We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts Live; they travel far. – Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Growth Mindset quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quote

#56 – We will be more successful in all out endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh Growth Mindset quotes

Thich Nhat Hanh Qyote

#57 – I think for me, the thing that gets me in the rights mindset is just watching something funny, something lights, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is – when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!              Derek Hough

Derek Hough Growth Mindset quotes

Derek Hough Quote

#58 – Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.  Curtis Jackson

Curtis Jackson Growth Mindset quotes

Curtis Jackson Quote

#59 – Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. – Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Growth Mindset quotes

Albert Einstein Quote

#60 – Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset. – Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Growth Mindset quotes

Leonard Maltin Quote

#61-70 | Growth mindset quotes for greater self-awareness

#61 – Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. – Samuel Ullman

Samuel Ullman Growth Mindset quotes

Samuel Ullman Quote

#62 – If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fights for it. – Alice Walker

Alice Walker Growth Mindset quotes

Alice Walker Quote

#63 – People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point our flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present. – Blake Lively

 Blake Lively Growth Mindset quotes

Blake Lively Quote

#64 – I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono Growth Mindset quotes

Yoko Ono Quote

#65 – I’ve always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say “no” to because it’s so easy to say “yes”. – Paul Sparks

Paul Sparks Growth Mindset quotes

Paul Sparks Quote

#66 – Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

Les Brown Growth Mindset quotes

Les Brown Quote

#67 – Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people. – Uday Kotak

Uday Kotak Growth Mindset quotes

Uday Kotak Quote

#68 – It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that’s why there’s not a lot of super duper successful people, because it’s guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don’t work as hard. – Rico Love

Rico Love Growth Mindset quotes

Rico Love Quote

#69 – Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends. – Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan  Growth Mindset quotes

Tariq Ramadan Quote

#70 – I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. – Paula Cole

Paula Cole Growth Mindset quotes

Paula Cole Quote

#71-80 | Growth mindset quotes to overcome obstacles

#71 – I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb.

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. Growth Mindset quotes

Robert Downey Jr. Quote

#72 – I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. – Curt Schilling

Curt Schilling Growth Mindset quotes

Curt Schilling Quote

#73 – Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself. – Brett Hull

Brett Hull Growth Mindset quotes

Brett Hull Quote

#74 – We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great. – Rozonda Thomas

Rozonda Thomas Growth Mindset quotes

Rozonda Thomas Quote

#75 – Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset. – Dan Quinn

Dan Quinn Growth Mindset quotes

Dan Quinn Quote

#76 – Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realized how important it is to use the time I have. – Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen Growth Mindset quotes

Viggo Mortensen Quote

#77 – I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – Meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. – Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum Growth Mindset quotes

Heidi Klum Quote

#78 – Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne Growth Mindset quotes

A. A. Milne Quote

#79 – If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford Growth Mindset quotes

Henry Ford Quote

#80 – Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. – David Joseph Schwartz

David Joseph Schwartz Growth Mindset quotes

David Joseph Schwartz Quote

#81-90 | Growth mindset quotes specially picked for you

#81 – My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too. – Malik Jackson

Malik Jackson Growth Mindset quotes

Malik Jackson Quote

#82 – When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Growth Mindset quotes

Marcus Aurelius Quote

#83 – When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. – William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray Growth Mindset quotes

William Makepeace Thackeray Quote

#84 – Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Growth Mindset quotes

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quote

#85 – If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special. – Jim Valvano

Jim Valvano Growth mindset quotes

Jim Valvano Quote

#86 – I hate the fact that people think “compromise” is a dirty word. – Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush Growth mindset quotes

Barbara Bush Quote

#87 – If you don’t thing your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. learn how to cope sweet friend.  There will always be dark days. – Kris Carr

Kris Carr Growth mindset quotes

Kris Carr Quote

#88 – Don’t limit yourself. many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. what you believe, remember, you can achieve. – Mary Kay Ash

Mary Kay Ash Growth mindset quotes

Mary Kay Ash Quote

#89 – You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Growth mindset quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

#90 – Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. – Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII Growth mindset quotes

Pope John XXIII Quote

#91-101 | Growth mindset quotes from David Brett-Williams

#91 – You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. – Marie Curie

Marie Curie growth mindset quotes

Marie Curie Quote

#92 – You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.  – Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren growth mindset quotes

Sophia Loren Quote

#93 – I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person. – Judith Hill

Judith Hill Growth mindset quotes

Judith Hill Quote

#94 – If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim

Peace Pilgrim Growth mindset quotes

Peace Pilgrim Quote

#95 – Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie Quote#

#96 – You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. – Barbara Bush

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Barbara Bush Quote#

#97 – I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

Shailene Woodley

Shailene Woodley growth mindset quotes

Shailene Woodley Quote

#98 – 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

Buddha Growth mindset quotes

Buddha Quote

#99 – There is something about the mindset of scientist that is different – an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof. – Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz growth mindset quotes

Joseph Stiglitz Quote

#100 – My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky. – Kris Humphries

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Kris Humphries Quote

#101 – The mind is everything what you think you become. – Buddha

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Buddha Quote’

We all know we have to believe in ourselves. Always!

Next time you are running low on positivity and can’t summon the motivation to keep moving forward, try these dynamic and compelling quotes to stay positive and propel you to take action.

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When You Need To Say Sorry and How To Say It

We engage in a funny paradox with sorry. We feel inclined to apologise for things that aren’t our fault, however, when we are genuinely at fault, we get a lump in our throats and struggle to mutter the simplest apology.

Oddly, that is the time when we need to say sorry the most. When we have wronged someone and get that guilty feeling is the time we need to say “I’m sorry” the most.

Yet that is also the time we fail to do so the most.

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But what is the source of these feelings? Is it based on what you have actually done or is it because you feel bad about yourself?

When You Need To Say Sorry and How To Say It

“It’s always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words ‘I’m sorry’; it is also offering what you need to do.” – Grace Poe

Did this damage your reputation in the other person’s thinking. Getting to the core of the issue, do you feel sorry for yourself and the loss of esteem etc. or are you remorseful for what you’ve done to the other person?

The Massive Difference

There is a massive difference between these two.

The difference is massive in the way you shape your apology. And in the way, the receiver views that apology and whether they choose to forgive you or not.

Let’s see an example in action.
I am sorry for what I have said, but I was really stressed that day because of everything going on at work.
I have got to finish this massive amount of work by Thursday.
It was Tuesday, and I felt the pressure of not being able to complete it on time.

And another example.
I am sorry for what I have done to you.
I know I have hurt your feelings and I have no excuse to offer for what I have done.
Only my sincerest apologies because I have broken your trust and made you doubt me.
I’m genuinely sorry once again, and I hope you will be able to forgive me in time.

There are significant differences between the two examples I just showed you. But can you spot them?

In the first example, they only feel bad about themselves. And when you see all the excuses that they are coming up with you get a feeling that they likely to repeat the same mistake again.

When the circumstances are similar, they will do it again. Because they don’t realise it was up to them to stop and decide how to behave. To differentiate between their work and personal life.

And it was up to them to decide what to say and how to say it regardless of the circumstances. However, the company got the blame for their wrongdoing.

To me, this only proves that they don’t realise how they hurt your feelings. And they put themselves first.

Remorse

However, the second example shows a person with remorse. Maybe, they have their reasons or tons of excuses, but in their apology, they don’t mention them.

Firstly, they apologise for their actions and then openly admits that their wrongdoing has caused the other person suffering. They aren’t afraid to be vulnerable and open to criticism because they have already accepted their wrongful actions.

Remarkably, they don’t put further pressure on the other person but merely hope that they will find the ability to forgive as time passes.

When You Need To Say Sorry and How To Say It

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” – Albert Einstein

Put yourself in the position of the hurt person. Who would you rather hear an apology from, and who would you be more likely to forgive?

For me, it is without any doubt the second one. The second person sounded like they realised the damage they have done to you and to your relationship.

By doing this, they are less likely to repeat the same wrongdoing again.

This brings us back to my earlier point. What is the source of these feelings of guilt and shame? Is it based on what you have actually done or is it because you feel bad about yourself?

If I rephrase that, you messed up and you are facing the consequences of your actions. Do you feel bad for yourself or do you feel bad about the other person?

Of course, it can be both, but who you put in the first perspective matters.

It matters to your apology. It matters to the other person. And it affects their judgment whether to forgive you or not.

How To Make A Lasting Apology

We will go deeper into the analysis of a proper apology, but before that, I want to provide four frames that you can apply when making your next apology.

Make sure you adopt each frame if you want your apology to be well received and help to heal the other person’s feelings.

Think of this as your checklist to use when deliberating over the most suitable way to apologise.

Put Yourself In Their Shoes

This is the perfect time to develop your empathy and express it to the other person and putting yourself in the other’s person shoes does just that.

It enables you to understand what you have done wrong and why their feelings are hurt. All of us have different backgrounds and history, and we were brought up with differing norms and values.

You might not consider what you said or did that big a deal. However, the other person does, and it matters to them.

When You Need To Say Sorry and How To Say It

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” – D. H. Lawrence

So put yourself in the other person’s shoes and be more empathic and thoughtful to their feelings. This step alone will enable you to craft out a heartfelt apology they cannot say no to.

Be Genuine Or Don’t Bother

When you have wronged, there is no going back. You can’t undo what happened as much as you wish that you could.

The only thing left to do is, to be honest. Make your apology genuine. Use words from your heart that the other person will be able to feel.

When your apology is made on a foundation of a lie, know that your apology is designed to fail. Imagine they find you lying again after forgiving you.

Whatever trust they had is now shattered. And at that point, there is nothing you can do to reverse it. When apologising, think of it as the last stop of honesty.

Say how it made you feel, what exactly happened, why you thought it was the right thing to do and what you learned in the entire process.

If you don’t sound as if you mean it, how would you expect the other person to believe you? Honesty is the only way to get the other person to forgive you and move forward from this situation.

Leave The Excuses For Another Time

You might have a million excuses for what happened. You might even call them reasons and not excuses. And that is great.

Everyone one of us has reasons for acting the way we do. As I said, we have all been raised in different environments.

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Apologise sincerely, say it with meaning, say you realised how you hurt them and then stop. Don’t add a “but” in the process.

Then, later on, as your relationship heals, you can have a healthy conversation about what happened. Go through it and explain why you behaved as you did. Then all your excuses, sorry, reasons can come out.

The new light that will be shed on the situation is only effective after they have forgiven you. Allow them the time and space to cool their head and begin to see it all from a different point of view.

Only then will your excuses and buts have a possibility of being accepted. And I should say partially accepted.

When You Need To Say Sorry and How To Say It

“Feeling sorry for yourself is not only a waste of your energy and time but one of the worst habits that you could develop.” – David Brett-Williams

Because you still have to take responsibility for what you have done and not try to wriggle away from it with endless justifications.

Just accept that you have wronged, and be grateful that the other person has forgiven you. After all, that is all that matters.

Stick To Your Promises To Make Sorry Last

Lastly, if you have vowed to that person that you’ll change, then just do what you promised. Change.

Do not delude yourself into thinking you can repeat what you have done, again and again. I’m saying this because some people think that if they were forgiven, they could pull it off one more time.

The chances for this are so small that they are minute. Just remember how much you hurt the other person the last time.

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If you have vowed to change then change. Don’t continue to create more cracks.

The truth is that words without any action to back them up are empty and meaningless. And only reinforce the belief that you were never sorry, to begin with.

Virtues Gained From Saying Sorry

By showing you are genuinely sorry you leave your ego behind. You open your heart, you are vulnerable, you say you were wrong. And that requires the absence of your ego.

And while you might lose one thing, your ego, you gain many other positive things in return.

Here are three things that you gain that make saying sorry worthwhile:

A Deeper Relationship

You get the potential to know that person on a much deeper level. Sure, disagreements in relationships, be it family, friends or lovers, are a regular thing.

However, when you apologise, and you mean it, then you get to talk on a deeper level about feelings. And get to know each other much better.

After this encounter, if it all turns out well, you have met another person in them.

I am never suggesting that you create situations to say sorry. However, this person you got to know may not have appeared under any other circumstances.

Value that person, but be sure not to repeat the transgression again.

Being Right

You avoid the never-ending cycle of being right. If your fight goes on and on, and you cannot stop taking swipes at each other, then a simple “I’m sorry” stops it dead in its tracks.

Living in a constant battle brings stress and woe and nothing but stress and woe. So after weeks of arguments, it turns out that you were right? Nothing.

Your ego is fed, but those weeks that kept you further apart and put a strain on your relationship cannot be returned. You cannot make up for that lost time.

The battle of who is right and who is wrong is fought only within your perception. They are your truth and not anyone else’s.

In the end, you both end up being lonely in your own “winner” and “loser” positions. If you fight these, “I must be right, so that means you are wrong” fights your relationship will suffer greatly.

Sorry the feelings rain down on us

“I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.” – Yolanda Hadid

The person who ends being wrong feels defensive and not listened to and not understood. This creates frustration.

And they likely to fight even harder next time just to prove their point argument and win. A real merry-go-round of a battle.

Trust

You build or rebuild trust. Saying I’m sorry is a significant trust builder in any relationship.

The other person sees that you are accountable for your actions, and this means a lot to them. By stepping up and saying sorry, you show that you recognised the impact your transgression had on them.

The Bottom Line On Sorry

A heartfelt apology is intended to heal the feelings of the injured party and restore the relationship. And to a lesser extent repair the reputation of the transgressor.

The guidelines are simple.

Be empathic towards the person you have hurt and start with “I apologise” or “I am sorry.”
Accept full responsibility for your actions and the negative impact it had on them.
Be specific when saying I’m sorry and save the excuses for later.
Offer a sincere promise that you’ll make an effort to change, and most importantly stick to your promise.

This is what it takes for the hurt person to heal, build trust in you and not be weary of you repeating your mistakes again.

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101 Resilience Quotes To Help You Get Through Your Day

These 101 resilience quotes remind me that whatever damage life has inflicted, the result is that I am more resilient and stronger.

I appreciate those experiences because they have made me better equipped to face the present. The strength and resolve to rebound from loss and sorrow is something that we all have in common.

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Next time you feel you are at the bottom, try these powerful resilience quotes to inspire you to get back up.

#1-10 | Resilience quotes that will inspire you

#1 – In order to success people need a sense of self-efficiency, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura resilience quotes

Albert Bandura Quote

#2 – Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. – Jamais Cascio

Jamais Cascio resilience quotes

Jamais Cascio Quote

#3 – Real obstacles don;t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. – Barbara Sher

Barbara Sher resilience quotes

Barbara Sher Quote

#4 – My childhood gave me resilience – and there’s little that can surprise me in life.  Natalia Vadianova

Natalia Vadianova resilience quotes

Natalia Vadianova Quote

#5 – It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. – Maureen Forrester

Maureen Forrester resilience quotes

Maureen Forrester Quote

#6 – Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

Henry Ford resilience quotes

Henry Ford Quote

#7 – It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career. – Carlton Fisk

Carlton Fisk resilience quotes

Carlton Fisk Quote

#8 – You’re going to face adversity. It’s not if – it’s when. – Andre Ward

Andre Ward resilience quotes

Andre Ward Quote

#9 – An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… The truly wise person is colorblind. – Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer resilience quotes

Albert Schweitzer Quote

#10 – In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. – Robert Collier

Robert Collier resilience quotes

Robert Collier Quote

#11-20 | Resilience quotes that will empower you

#11 – I think there are things that we can ll do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other. – Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg resilience quotes

Sheryl Sandberg Quote

#12 – Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. – Emil Dorian

Emil Dorian resilience quotes

Emil Dorian Quote

#13 – I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou Quote

#14 – The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Zig Zaglar

 Zig Zaglar resilience quotes

Zig Zaglar Quote

#15 – Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama resilience quotes

Dalai Lama Quote

#16 – For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve to conquer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger  resilience quotes

Arnold Schwarzenegger Quote

#17 – Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it it’s less good than the one you had before. – Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards resilience quotes

Elizabeth Edwards Quote

#18 – The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu resilience quotes

Lao Tzu Quote

#19 – Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. – Colin Powell

Colin Powell resilience quotes

Colin Powell Quote

#20 – Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill  resilience quotes

Winston Churchill Quotes

#21-30 | Quotes about resilience and transformation

#21 – The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable, they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. – Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Resilience Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quote

#22 – If everything seems under control, you are not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

Mario Andretti  resilience quotes

Mario Andretti Quote

#23 – Every adversity , every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal of greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill resilience quotes

Napoleon Hill Quote

#24 – Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking resilience quotes

Stephen Hawking Quote

#25 – Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. – Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins resilience quotes

Tony Robbins Quote

#26 – Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. – John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell resilience quotes

John C. Maxwell Quote

#27 – The impossible – we are told – cannot be achieve. To overcome the “impossible”, we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent – some would one say to cheat. – Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit resilience quotes

Philippe Petit Quote

#28 – I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I think that’s normal for someone who wants to grow and develop. You will have to overcome plenty of obstacles, and it is normal that you should stumble sometimes. – Gianluigi Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon resilience quotes

Gianluigi Buffon Quote

#29 – The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.

Pete Wentz

Pete Wentz resilience quotes

Pete Wentz Quote

#30 – Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.  Brandon Webb

Brandon Webb resilience quotes

Brandon Webb Quote

#31-40 | Famous and powerful resilience quotes

#31 – Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, out patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. – Sheri L. Dew

Sheri L. Dew resilience quotes

Sheri L. Dew Quote

#32 – Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity. – Benjamin Watson

Benjamin Watson resilience quotes

Benjamin Watson Quote

#33 – I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. – Ann Bancroft

Ann Bancroft resilience quotes

Ann Bancroft Quote

#34 – There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect. – Andres Iniesta

Andres Iniesta resilience quotes

Andres Iniesta Quote

#35 – There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. – Sharron Angle

Sharron Angle resilience quotes

Sharron Angle Quote

#36 – I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. – Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell resilience quotes

Joseph Campbell Quote

#37 – The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand as in what direction you are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes resilience quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote

#38 – When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed though our bloodline. – Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King resilience quotes

Coretta Scott King Quote

#39 – Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. – Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill Quote’

#40 – The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. – Morihei Ueshiba

Morihei Ueshiba  resilience quotes

Morihei Ueshiba Quote

#41-50 | Quotes about resilience in business

#41 – Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult times. – Gever Tulley

Gever Tulley resilience quotes

Gever Tulley Quote

#42 – Definiteness of purpose if the starting point of all achievement.

– W. Clement Stone

W. Clement Stone resilience quotes

W. Clement Stone Quote

#43 – Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. – Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield resilience quotes

Jack Canfield Quote

#44 – I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we’ll face. And we all face some adversity – we’re all living some form of Option B. – Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg resilience quote

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

#45 – She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. – Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards resilience quotes

Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

#46 – I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.  Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan  resilience quotes

Michael Jordan Quote

#47 – Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill Resilience

#48 – Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

– Morihei Ueshiba

Morihei Ueshiba resilience quotes

Morihei Ueshiba Quote

#49 – If you never know hardship, you can’t really support people around you.

– Natalia Vodianova

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Natalia Vodianova Quotes

#50 – Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

– John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy resilience quotes

John F. Kennedy Quote

#51-60 | Resilience quotes to live by

#51 – Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

– Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli resilience quotes

Steve Maraboli Quote

#52 – Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

– Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey Quote

#53 – The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt resilience quotes

Theodore Roosevelt Quote

#54 – Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. – Mia Hamm

 Mia Hamm resilience quotes

Mia Hamm Quote

#55 – Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. – Florence Scovel Shinn

Florence Scovel Shinn resilience quotes

Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

#56 – Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. – Confucius

Confucius resilience quotes

Confucius Quote

#57 – What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. – Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber resilience quotes

Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

#58 – If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. – Zig Zaglar

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Zig Zaglar Quotes

#59 – Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur resilience quotes

Douglas MacArthur Quote

#60 – Develop success from failures, discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie quotes

#61-70 | Quotes about resilience in human spirit

#61 – Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it’s going to be very, very hard.

– Renee James

Renee James resilience quotes

Renee James Quote

#62  – There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. – Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins resilience quote

Tony Robbins Quotes

#63 – Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. – George Whitefield

George Whitefield resilience quotes

George Whitefield Quote

#64 – It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Dieter F. Uchtdorf resilience quote

Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quote

#65 – Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Forbes resilience quotes

Malcolm Forbes Quote

#66 – Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you’re doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer resilience quotes

Albert Schweitzer Quote

#67 – Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. – Maxwell Maltz

Maxwell Maltz resilience quote

Maxwell Maltz Quotes

#68 – Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin resilience quotes

Benjamin Franklin Quote

#69 – The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer resilience quote image

Albert Schweitzer Quotes

#70 – Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I’m pleasantly surprised with my resilience, I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good. – Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields resilience quotes

Brooke Shields Quote

#71-80 | Mental resilience quotes

#71 – When it’s only you that you can rely on, you’re surprised at the resilience that you have. – Paul Dini

Paul Dini resilience quotes

Paul Dini Quote

#72 – Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino

Og Mandino resilience quotes

Og Mandino Quote

#73 – Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

– Malcolm Forbes

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Malcolm Forbes Quotes

#74 – To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

– Friedrich Nietzcshe

Friedrich Nietzcshe resilience quotes

Friedrich Nietzcshe Quote

#75 – While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle. – Michael Greger

Michael Greger resilience quotes

Michael Greger Quote

#76 – We need to have a purpose in this life. I’m pleading with you, I’m begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing. – James McGreevey

James McGreevey resilience quotes

James McGreevey Quote

#77 – There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell

Colin Powell resilience quotes

Colin Powell Quote

#78 – All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. – Walt Disney

Walt Disney resilience quotes

Walt Disney Quote

#79 – There is a saying, “Eyes, are the windows to the soul”. It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d life to look at her of his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color. – Peng Liyuan

Peng Liyuan resilience quotes

Peng Liyuan Quote

#80 – Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

– Payal Kadakia

Payal Kadakia resilience quotes

Payal Kadakia Quote

#81-90 | Resilience quotes to remind you how resilient you are

#81 – What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment. – Roy T. Bennett

Roy T. Bennett resilience quotes

Roy T. Bennett Quote

#82 – Life takes on a meaning when you become motivated, set goal and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. – Les Brown

Les Brown resilience quotes

Les Brown Quote

#83 – The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke resilience quotes

Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

#84 – Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. – W. Clement Stone

W. Clement Stone resilience quote image

W. Clement Stone Quotes

#85 – The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

#86 – There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. – Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps resilience quotes

Michael Phelps Quote

#87 – If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. – Pat Riley

Pat Riley resilience quotes

Pat Riley Quote

#88 – When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. – Greg Anderson

Greg Anderson resilience quotes

Greg Anderson Quote

#89 – You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one. – Elisabeth Edwards

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Elisabeth Edwards Quote’s

#90 – Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

– Williams Arthur Ward

Williams Arthur Ward resilience quotes

Williams Arthur Ward Quote

#91-101 | Resilience quotes to inspire inner strength

#91 Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn’t go on, you did.

Note to self Resilience Quotes

Note to self Quote

#92 – As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

 

Joseph B. Wirthlin resilience quotes

Joseph B. Wirthlin Quote

#93 – Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

#94 – The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacles does with brave men is, not to frighten them but to challenge them. – Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson resilience quotes

Woodrow Wilson Quote

#95 – Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique. – Kevin Conroy

Kevin Conroy resilience quotes

Kevin Conroy Quote

#96 – You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. – Golda Meir

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Golda Meir Quote

#97 – When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. – Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph  resilience quotes

Wilma Rudolph Quote

#98 – I’ve always found taht anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’re got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

– Chuck Norris

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Chuck Norris Quote

#99 – Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. – Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height resilience quotes

Dorothy Height Quote

#100 – you can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I’ve overcome it. – Mary J. Blice

Mary J. Blice resilience quotes

Mary J. Blice Quote

#101- Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. – Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Resilience Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote

My scars remind me that I am a survivor. And that is an accomplishment. One I sometimes forget.

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  • 5 May, 2018
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When You Should Fight the Impossible Fight

You have a dream, a vision, something that you want to achieve. It is so close, so real that you can almost touch it.

Then, before you can fully comprehend what has happened, it’s further away than it ever was before. It’s now out of sight and feels like it could be unreachable.

We hear examples all the time of a fight that suddenly becomes impossible. Perhaps, the most common of these is the example of ‘the wall’.

Runners and especially marathon runners are said to hit ‘the wall’, when they can no longer continue, mentally or physically. They have simply run out of energy and determination. What seemed possible, has suddenly become impossible.

All the more frustrating for these endurance athletes is that they tend to experience this about mile twenty. They have done the majority of the work, they only have six miles to go. The finish line is almost in sight.

When you hit ‘the wall’ you are presented with two choices:

You can push on and break through.
or
You can give up.

You don’t have to look very far to see a form of inspirational reference to ‘nothing is impossible’.

‘Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!’ – Audrey Hepburn
‘I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.’ – Michael Phelps
‘Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.’ – Jonathan Winters

When You Should Fight the Impossible Fight

“We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.”- Emmanuel Macron

However, inspiration can only take you so far, before you need something tangible. Something to tell you just how and why you should fight the impossible fight.

The first step towards overcoming your own impossible fight is understanding what has caused the metaphorical ‘wall’ to appear.

 

What Makes An Obstacle Impossible

Ever pondered whether anything truly impossible? That is a big question.

Theoretically, nothing is truly impossible. Realistically, it can certainly feel like some things are.

The concept of impossible lies predominantly in the mind. Whats going on around you can fuel the idea, but nevertheless, it’s all down to perception.

What you think and believe to be true, very much manifests itself into reality. If you believe that something is impossible, then you almost make it impossible for yourself.

Is your goal difficult?
or
Is your goal challenging?

Is your goal tiring?
or
Is your goal freeing?

The way that you perceive your goal is how you’re going to approach it.

If you approach a goal with the perception that it’s difficult and tiring, then it will very quickly feel impossible.

If you approach a goal with the perception that it’s challenging and freeing, then it will feel very possible.

So, what causes the perception of an obstacle or a goal to go from positive to negative?

Understanding Your Negative Mindset

Many things can cause a positive mindset to shift into a negative one.

You may have had a tiring day at work. Perhaps you’re stressed over something that’s out of your control. Maybe you didn’t get enough sleep the night before.

Once the first signs of negativity appear, it’s very difficult to arrest that slide and get rid of them. Gradually, they’ll start to infiltrate your thoughts, and affect unrelated parts of your life.

Having a negative mindset towards your goal could just be collateral damage from something else going on.

Or, there may have been a negative connotation surrounding what you want to achieve.

Maybe work is starting to pile up and you can’t stay on top of your goals. Perhaps things simply aren’t falling into place as you expected them to.

You can very quickly lose the positivity surrounding what you wanted to achieve when these feelings of negativity arise.

The reality is, our minds can often become biased to the negative. Much more so than to positive.

The Biased Nature Of The Mind

For all of us, events and experiences become a story in our minds. Almost like a story we read in a book or magazine.

These events and experiences can contain beautiful positive moments and some negative ones.

What shines through when it comes to remembering and replaying the event in our mind though, is very often the negative moments.

This distorts our whole perception of the event. What could have been 95% positive and 5% negative, feels like the reverse.

If you’re facing something that feels impossible, and have already ‘failed’ once, this is often what you will think of.

This then heightens the feelings of an ‘impossible’ task. Your mind will start to think impossible negative thoughts, not possible positive thoughts.

Is It a Success Or A Failure?

If you’ve put a goal in the ‘impossible’ category, then it’s essential that you go back and consider any ‘failures’. Failure is a harsh term, and very often, it’s wrongly attached to something.

What happened during that moment of failure? Did you indeed fail, or did you stop being resilient?

You can almost always find success in the event of ‘failure’. If you learnt something, then that’s one notch on the success bar.

Far too often we allow one event to mean that we stop fighting what suddenly feels like the impossible fight.

If you’re still learning, then you’re always succeeding. Nothing could be impossible if it’s presenting learning opportunities.

When You Should Fight the Impossible Fight

Maybe to change the outcome, you needed to be more resilient. Perhaps you ran out of courage at the finish line.

The time to give up the impossible fight is when you no longer want to achieve it.

If you still have some courage left, and a touch of resilience, then its time to jump back in the game.

How to Tackle ‘Impossible’ Obstacles

Ready to change your perception of impossible goals? It might not be the easiest path, but if you want something, then you can achieve it.

Taking down the impossible means changing your perception. Taking a hard look at those goals and saying:
‘You’re possible. I will achieve you!’

Start by banishing those negatives and switch the percentages around.

To conquer your goals, go on a mental diet. Think 95% positive and only 5% negative. Or just go one step further and fully commit and go 100% positive!

Start Thinking About the Positives

Take a good look at the negative thoughts that are stopping you from progressing.

Are they helpful, meaningful, or accurate?

Do they in any way help you to succeed in achieving your goal?

If the answer is no, then banish them from your mind.

Eliminate all the negative thoughts that impact your perception of impossible and think about the positives.

Going back to the concept of success and failure, think of those things that you have succeeded at. Embrace why you’re trying to make a change and think about what that change will mean for you.

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Focus on Your Self-Confidence

When you have trust in your own abilities and can follow your judgement, then you can achieve anything. Because of this, self-confidence is one of the most important tools for facing impossible challenges.

Self-confidence can pick you up when you hit a rocky path. It can tell you what you can do. It can tell you where you need to improve.

Focusing on your self-confidence will help you to realise when to push and when to follow a new direction.

Build your self-confidence by listing your abilities and reinforcing what it is that you excel at. It could be creativity or determination, intelligence or compassion.

List them and remember them.

If you feel confident of your choices, then even if you make a mistake, you can learn from it.

Start Encouraging Yourself

Facing the impossible fight is exhausting. If it were easy, you wouldn’t have dubbed your own personal challenge as ‘impossible’.

When You Should Fight the Impossible Fight

“You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.” – Scott M. Gimple

There is nobody that can better encourage you to conquer it than yourself. Never forget to give yourself an encouragement boost at the easiest and hardest times.

Critiquing your work is essential for development. As the old saying goes ‘you are your toughest critic’.

Take a moment to make sure that the critique is positive.

Stop saying:
‘I did this wrong.’

And start saying:
‘I did this right.’

Encourage yourself through the fight, don’t put yourself down and count yourself out too early.

Make Your Goals Achievable

Even the seemingly most impossible of obstacles can be broken down into smaller possible obstacles.

Let’s say your impossible fight is writing a book, then write the first chapter.
Also if your impossible fight is starting a new career, then take the first action to revamp your CV and look at job opportunities.
Imagine if your impossible fight is changing your whole life, then make the first change right now.

Achieving one small goal will give you a positive perspective. It will enable you to look at the bigger picture and say:
‘I did this, now I’m going to do this.’

With one success under your belt, the next might not come easier, but it will indeed be one step closer. For those impossible fights that are slipping further and further away, be proactive and reel them back in.

Ditch Your Comfort Zone

The reality is, what seems impossible, only looks that way because it’s outside of your comfort zone. An impossible fight filled with impossible obstacles is going to require you to leap out of your comfort zone.

Want to start a business but don’t know the first thing about starting a business? It may look impossible, but once you jump in and stay resilient, you’ll start learning.

Most of the best innovations in the world have started with a single question:
‘What if?’

It’s very easy to stay wrapped up in what you know, it’s a safe place to be. If you test your limits though, you start to see what’s really possible.

You don’t need to start out at the deep end, you can start with something small. It doesn’t even have to be related to your goal.

If you can leave your comfort zone, for one thing, you can do it again and again. Over time, exploring the unknown will start to lose some of the negative feelings of worry, concern, and fear.

Keep Track Of Your Achievements

Every achievement is a success, don’t fall into the trap of forgetting them. Many people dwell on the negative but leave the positive forgotten.

Write down your achievements, check them off your list, and remember the feeling of succeeding. When it comes time for a test of resilience down the path, it pays to know that you can achieve.

Even if your success doesn’t feel like an achievement, embrace the positive side of it. Think about the input, not the output.

You may have worked for hours with determination, creativity, and confidence.

The end result not as you imagined?
It doesn’t matter.

You were determined, creative, and confident.
That does matter.

Record it as an achievement, use those traits, and try again.

There’s only so long the impossible can stay impossible in the face of resilience.

Think About Your Personal Situation

It’s very easy to dwell on what other people are doing.
For some, achieving comes so quickly. Nothing is impossible. It all falls readily onto their plate.

If you stay focused on what other people are doing, then you will never be able to focus on what you are doing.

Your own impossible fight is personal. The obstacles may look the same as somebody else’s, but they couldn’t be more different.

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Everything you achieve improves you in some way.

With each new experience you encounter, you become a better person. Both those experiences that feel bad and those that feel good.

Expend all that valuable energy on overcoming your unique problems, not worrying about some else’s.

When You Should Fight the Impossible Fight

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

Be Courageous and Conquer Your Impossible Fight

The impossible fight will never get any easier the longer it’s left. Putting it off, sweeping it under the carpet, and occasionally glancing that way will never see you conquering it.

The time to conquer the impossible fight it is now.

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Impossibility sits in the mind only.

When your perception changes and you realise that impossible is just possible in disguise, you know it’s time to succeed.

Mistakes will likely occur, and you may feel ready to give up. You need to decide whether you’re the person who pushes through ‘the wall’, or the person that turns and runs.

Just remember: Everything is possible.

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