8 Quotes About Resilience to Reframe Your Thoughts Today

How top authors, poets, and coaches link resilience and success

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I bet you can’t point to a single successful person who’s not also resilient.

• Oprah Winfrey grew up in poverty, and famously got demoted early in her career. She’s now a billionaire media executive and philanthropist.
• Stephen King’s novel Carrie was rejected by 30 publishers before it got picked up, became a bestseller, and was made into a movie. He has now written more than 50 books and he won the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
• At age 15, Charlize Theron saw her mother kill her father in self-defense. Three years later she landed in Hollywood with only $400 and launched her Academy-Award-winning career.

Resilience and success go together like peanut butter and jelly. Like Tom and Jerry. Like knowledge and power.

That’s because successful people know that bouncing back from adversity is a key skill for growth.

Here, eight authors, poets, and coaches who have thought deeply about resilience share key ways the life skill is intertwined with success.

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