49 Quotes About Bouncing Back

Bouncing back from an experience that left you with post traumatic stress disorder is not easily accomplished. These quotes about bouncing back are examples to the type of endurance needed to be successful.

“A good school teaches you resilience – that ability to bounce back.”

“And you will keep breaking my heart a thousand times. And I will keep joining the pieces back a thousand times.”

“As a filmmaker, I’m very collaborative. I don’t pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.”

“Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.”

“Everything’s not going to go perfect. You’re going to have some losses that you’re going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you’re going to have to deal with.”

“I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.”

“I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don’t even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.”

“I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.”

“I could not bounce back from my divorce – emotionally – I just could not bounce back.”

“I don’t believe in a recipe for success. You have to work hard; you may not always get it right – you have to bounce back from situations, and you have to be really focused and determined. It’s important to have fun as well. Work shouldn’t be a torture.”

“I don’t have an acting coach, but the closest thing I have would be some of my peers that are my close friends. We bounce ideas off each other and help one another run our lines all the time.”

“I don’t know how many times I’ve turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office.”

“I feel like ‘Work’ was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it’s obviously biographical. With ‘Bounce,’ I wanted to make sure people know there’s a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.”

“I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.”

“I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I’m in an active state.”

“I have to tell you, I’m proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people’s lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.”

“I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.”

“I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I’m not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I’ve got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.”

“I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.”

“I think it’s good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.”

“I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce – maybe it’s a Southern bounce or something.”

“I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they’re going to think twice about coming near me again.”

“I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn’t think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.”

“If you’ve ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it’s just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it’s not.”

“It is always challenging bowling abroad – you don’t get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don’t get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.”

“It’s an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.”

“It’s clear that people are going to download media files, and they’re going to talk to each other, and they’re going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.”

“It’s really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It’s good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.”

“I’ve had a number of injuries; I’ve had a number of surgeries, and I’ve been able to bounce back from them. I attribute that to Him as much as me just trying to take care of myself as much as I can.”

“I’ve learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.”

“Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.”

“One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.”

“Only bad golfers are lucky. They’re the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.”

“People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.”

“Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.”

“Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.”

“Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.”

“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.”

“Sometimes if you start a relationship when you’re young, you’re not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.”

“Sometimes, I put a couple of mannequins on the edge of the box and do these things called bounce balls. You pass against it, and it comes back; you take a couple of touches ’round the mannequins and shoot.”

“Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it’s possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process.”

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

“The dream as an actor is being able to bounce back and forth between different things.”

“The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.”

“The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.”

“With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.”

Coming back from adversity can leave you feeling tiresome and overwhelmed.